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Record W4387935353 · doi:10.3138/topia-2023-0013

White Obstructions; Barriers to the Implementation of Black Studies

2023· article· en· W4387935353 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Laura McKinley

Bibliographic record

VenueTOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCritical Race Theory in Education
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBureaucracyDenialDeliberationPoliticsWhite (mutation)Diversity (politics)Inclusion (mineral)Equity (law)SociologyPublic administrationPolitical scienceGender studiesCitizen journalismCriminologyPublic relationsLawPsychologyPsychoanalysis

Abstract

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This article interrogates the strategies of white supremacy that functioned as obstacles to the implementation of the Black Studies stream in the Social and Political Thought graduate program at York University. The author reflects on her experience as co-chair of the Graduate Student Association and an Executive Committee student representative the year before the inauguration of the stream, identifying and examining white bureaucratic delay, with its practices of reiterative revision and deliberation, as a tactical obstruction to Black studies. The author demonstrates how these administerial tactics, mutually dependent on anti-Black quotidian violence and the ongoing denial of its quintessence to the organizing logic of the university, also work to rescue academic whiteness from threats to its ascendancy, remaking it as the progressive agent of change in the neoliberal era of equity, diversity and inclusion.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

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)0.086
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.105
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.984
Threshold uncertainty score0.457

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0860.105
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0300.059
Scholarly communication0.0180.008
Open science0.0020.024
Research integrity0.0030.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.064
GPT teacher head0.444
Teacher spread0.380 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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