Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Great Migration of African Americans has long been viewed as a silent protest. Along with his The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement (2018), Thomas Aiello's Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration broadens this understanding. By focusing on a Black newspaper syndicate trying to expand from its Atlanta, Georgia, base during the Great Depression, he shows that the reach of the syndicate's “practical radicalism” extended far beyond the limits of a southern network. Understanding the vulnerability of a business enterprise under constant threat of racial violence, the leaders of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate (Sns) developed a press model that, while foregoing direct confrontation with white people easily alarmed by denunciation of the Jim Crow society, deployed its militant tone selectively by reporting outside (nonlocal) news. As a survival strategy, this practical radicalism tied well with a silent protest that deprived the South of the means to retaliate against migrants already scattered across the nation's urban landscape.
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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 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 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".