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Record W4230744342 · doi:10.3138/cras-s035-01-03

Afro(Americo)centricity in Black (American) Nova Scotia

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Daniel W. McNeil

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Review of American Studies · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNationalismReligious studiesPower (physics)Aristocracy (class)Gender studiesFaithHistorySociologyArtAestheticsPhilosophyTheologyPolitical sciencePoliticsLaw

Abstract

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A few families rose to prominence [in Baptist churches in Nova Scotia], created an aristocracy of the faith, and often held the church to more than ordinarily frozen and conservative theological and social positions. Winks 346 Winks’s reading of African-Canadian history exhibits, purely, a small-l liberal, American bias. I would need an entire book to amend—one by one—his false precepts ... African-Canadian ‘progress’ must be read against Canadian cultural norms, not American ones. Clarke,Odysseys Home 63^4n9 Preamble In formulating a vision of The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy makes sorties against anti-essentialists who ignore the appeal of a ‘‘power­ful, populist affirmation of black culture,’’ ‘‘racial conservationists who veer between a volkish, proto-fascist sensibility and the misty­eyed sentimentality of those who would shroud themselves in the supposed moral superiority that goes with victim status’’ (100, 101). Canadian scholars have found Gilroy’s work instructive. In Odysseys Home, George Elliott Clarke insists upon the ‘‘necessary attractiveness of cultural nationalism for any minority that feels itself downtrodden and disrespected’’ while warning of the ‘‘hazards of nationalism—its tendency to decay into fallacious myths, misty romanticisms, and blood-rite fascism’’ (183, 184). Yet Clarke does not only condemn the ‘‘liberal lies’’ of Robin Winks—the ‘‘American’’ (30, 124n9, 189) or ‘‘US’’ (155) author of The Blacks in Canada—and ‘‘those wanna-be black nationalists who suspect mixed-race or light-skinned blacks of being congenital .

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.112

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0140.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.000
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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