Black Women Making Place in Nineteenth- Century Newspapers
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay argues that letters to the editor are modes of “life storying” that document individual and collective makings of place as a collective Black feminist activism and politics. Using data visualization as a method of research and protocol of reading enables one to see that recalibrating how letters to the editor are understood, from a focus on the individual to one on the collective, reveals their political work across space and scale in the early to late nineteenth century. But digital humanities tools, such as data visualization, need to be used with attention to the foundational assumptions that underlie them and will not, alone, necessarily produce readings that put the individual and collective in generative dialogue. Rather, interscale readings that combine both foundational and new reading methodologies in the humanities may reveal more about Black women’s lives through this press form they used.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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 it