BLACK, BROWN OR WHITE?: AN ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICS OF MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN AMERICAN-PARENTED MULATTOS THROUGH HEIDI DURROW’S THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY
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Abstract
This study aims at critically examining the process of mixed-raced identity construction with a claim of uniqueness among mulatto.as with African ancestry in the American society. It focuses on this burgeoning scholarship that theorizes on the exclusivity of multiracial people’s social condition, a social class that lots of Americans with a black parent/ancestry today embrace. Their claim, which transgresses the fundamentals of the traditional patterns of racial assignment in the American monoracially structured society, creates its own literary space in the mosaic of emerging identity assertions. This politics is spearheaded by scholars, writers, and activists such as Heidi Durrow whose novel, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, is taken as case study. This essay reads, through a postcolonial grid, the experiential account of Durrow’s auto-inflected protagonist which brings up issues related to black people’s racial assignment and self-concept development in the so-called “mulatto millennium”, within a society yesterday unequivocal about the one-drop rule.
 
 Le présent travail de recherche vise à examiner de manière critique le processus de construction identitaire multiraciale, avec des revendications d'unicité, chez les métis.ses d’ascendance noire dans la société américaine. Il se focalise sur ce champ de recherche naissant qui affirme l'exclusivité de la condition sociale des personnes d’ascendance mixte, cette classe sociale dont se réclament aujourd’hui bon nombre de métis.ses de parents noirs. Leur revendication, qui transgresse les principes fondamentaux des modèles traditionnels de formation raciale dans la société américaine à structure monoraciale, crée son propre espace littéraire dans la mosaïque des revendications identitaires émergentes. Des universitaires, écrivains et militants tels que Heidi Durrow se font porte-voix de cette nouvelle politique identitaire. Le roman de cette dernière, La fille tombée du ciel, y est pris comme cas d’étude. La revendication expérientielle exceptionnelle incarnée par la protagoniste auto-infléchie de Durrow soulève quelques problèmes liés à l'assignation raciale et au développement du concept de soi parmi les sujets d’ascendance noire en ce début de millénaire baptisé «millénaire des métisses», au sein d'une société qui se voulait hier sans équivoque sur le one-drop rule. C’est le sujet sur lequel se penche le présent article. Le cadre théorique et méthodologique utilisé est l’approche postcolonialiste.
 
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".