5. Blackface at University: The Antiblack Logics of Canadian Academia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Brock University in 2014 (CBC News, 2014b); and the private Collge de Montral in 2017 (TVA Nouvelles, 2017).Also reported in the media are a blackface incident during the Montreal student protests of 2012 (Morgan, 2012) and one associated with a student at Citadel High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2019 (CTV Atlantic, 2019).The 2010 Report of the Task Force on Campus Racism of the Canadian Federation of Students reports a blackface incident at the University of Windsor (Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario, 2010, p. 7).Two of the three blackface incidents involving Justin Trudeau, reported by media in 2019, took place in school contexts: one in the 1980s while he was a student at Collge Jeande-Brbeuf, a private high school in Montreal, and the other in 2001 at a teachers' function at West Point Grey Academy, a private high school in Vancouver (CBC News, 2019).Besides these, there are several other blackface incidents at schools and universities that participants in this study referred to but that had escaped mainstream media attention.Yet despite this clear relationship between (often elite) schools and universities and blackface, there is also an intriguing aura of the unexpected that seems to attend blackface incidents at these sites in public
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".