Bibliographic record
Abstract
A particular displacement sets African Canadian culture apart from both Canadian (Western) art historical discourse and broader theorizations regarding Black art and culture more globally. While Black people date their presence in the country from as early as the 1600s, blackness in Canada is often falsely perceived as a recent phenomenon. The impossibility of imagining Black and Canadian (itself a notoriously inexpressible quality) is continually made evident, even as official nation-state policies like multiculturalism seem to signal otherwise. Given its perpetual struggle against erasure and exclusion, Black Canadian culture occupies a contested space, or a particular “absented presence.” This chapter explores how a new generation of African Canadian artists, curators and theorists are negotiating this complex reality in which the articulation of ambiguous and contradictory elements becomes the very possibility of opening up a new space of cultural practice. The text touches on the important work of archiving Black diasporic art and art history in Canada as it evolved around the political impetus of multiculturalism and cultural diversity in Canadian arts institutions beginning in the late 1980s. This includes recognition of more recent histories of activist organizing and institutional engagement across the country, especially since the global rise of the #Black Lives Matters movement in later 2000s.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.002 |
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".