Humanizing Maternal and Child Welfare in Dakar, 1949–1956
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chapter 5 focuses on the Union of Eurafricans in FWA, which became the Union of Eurafricans of Black Africa, and its founder Nicolas Rigonaux in the 1950s. It explores the organization’s facilitation of social, economic, and political multiracial projects, mainly in Dakar but also throughout FWA and FEA. An infrastructure of people, monetary resources, and print and radio platforms cohered métis people across French Africa. Racialized and gendered ideas and practices related to childhood, parenting, fostering, and family were key features in articulating the meanings of belonging, autonomy, and citizenship in 1950s French Africa. This basis led to an unstable French colonial power. Rigonaux forwarded himself as a father figure, guiding the well-being of métis and facilitating the French colonial state to fulfil its promise of equality. He succeeded in many of his initiatives with money from the colonial state. Changes he initiated were the direct remittance of welfare payments to African mothers, the publication of a newsletter, and founding a home for métis children in Dakar managed by a métis-owned charity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".