Folded into the Archive: Racialized Textile Labours and the Work of Suffrage Memory
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Abstract
Abstract: Two textiles tell a story about the changing landscape of American suffrage politics and activism at the start of the twentieth century. They reveal new space for an embrace of normatively feminine crafts, as well as the disparate ways in which Black and white activists’ labours, legacies, and heirlooms were incorporated into literal archives and suffrage memory. Nettie Asberry’s lace coat and Abigail Duniway’s hexagon quilt—both completed for national exhibitions—insisted upon the public valuation of skills that were considered domestic and nostalgically feminine. These suffragists displayed their handiwork and asserted that their political labours and public activism could exist comfortably alongside their decorative needlework. This strategy marked a change in both individual and institutional attitudes towards the relationship between textiles and politics. Duniway and Asberry’s work has been remembered and archived unevenly, however, which reveals the challenges Black women faced in their efforts to include themselves in suffrage memory. Abstract: Deux textiles racontent l’évolution du paysage de la politique et du militantisme du suffrage américain au début du XXe siècle. Ils mettent en lumière la nouvelle manière dont les activités artisanales normativement féminines ont été embrassées ainsi que les façons disparates dont les travaux, les héritages et les objets du patrimoine familial des suffragistes Noires et blanches ont été intégrés aux archives littérales et à la mémoire du suffrage. Le manteau en dentelle de Nettie Asberry et la courtepointe hexagonale d’Abigail Duniway —tous deux confectionnés en vue d’être présentés à des expositions nationales —insistaient sur la valorisation publique de compétences considérées comme domestiques et nostalgiquement féminines. Ces suffragistes ont exhibé leurs travaux manuels et ont affirmé que leur action politique et leur activisme public pouvaient coexister confortablement avec leurs travaux d’aiguille décoratifs. Cette stratégie a notamment marqué un changement dans les attitudes individuelles et institutionnelles à l’égard de la relation entre les textiles et la politique. Cependant, les œuvres de Duniway et d’Asberry ont été inscrits dans la mémoire et archivés de manière inégale, révélant ainsi les défis auxquels les suffragistes Noires ont été confrontées dans leurs efforts pour s’inclure dans la mémoire du suffrage.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".