Re-baptizing the World in Our Own Terms: Black Theatre and Live Arts in Britain
Bibliographic record
Abstract
It wasn’t until the mid-1970s that the BBC, bastion of “balanced” broadcasting, decided it was time to take The Black and White Minstrel Show off the air. This program, based on the first American theatre tradition, says more about the hegemony of a colonial fantasy constructed in the nineteenth century as part of a racist ideology than about the Black subject. In this Eurocentric discourse, we were always more body than mind, and Black cultural traditions were represented as homogeneous, marginal to the European canon, unsophisticated derivatives of Western forms and traditions. This historical, cultural and political background provides a critical framework for discussing Black theatre as developed and practised in a British context. This framework facilitates a critique of Black theatre, live art (that is, performance art) and related practices, in the context of a postcolonial discourse. While the term “Black” has been defined politically, in other studies, to include the African Caribbean, Southeast Asian, Chinese and other communities of colour, signifying the shared experiences of colonialism and political resistance to it; in the present context, “Black theatre” refers to theatre of African Caribbean origin.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".