Ungrateful: A Manifesto for Black Freedom in the Face of White Generosity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This manifesto builds on my 2020 article, “White Generosity: Black Freedom Faced with Good Intentions,” which identified the ways in which expectations of Black gratitude uphold white supremacist structures. In a world in which “anti-black violence and black death are underpinned by the construction of black freedom as a token of exchange within a racist system” (Wall 136), I seek to offer a framework for researchers and practitioners alike to engage with this phenomenon in order to undermine it and reject the narrative that Black freedom is something that white supremacy can give to us. Here, I apply my framework of white generosity to Black women’s theatre in Canada, to outline the quest for Black freedom today and the need for creative intervention in the form of artivism for thinking through a world outside of white generosity. From historical accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, like d’bi.young anitafrika’s esu crossing the middle passage, to ironic stories of modern slavery, like Andrea Scott’s Better Angels: A Parable, Canadian theatre is inventing new languages and metaphors to confront Black unfreedom.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".