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Record W4411856120 · doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12859

To Be Worthy of the Name of My Father: <i>Métis</i>, Paternity and Belonging in Twentieth and Twenty‐first Century Colonial and Postcolonial French Africa and France

2025· article· en· W4411856120 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGender & History · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicFrench Historical and Cultural Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismGenealogyHistoryEthnologySociologyArchaeology

Abstract

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ABSTRACT This article explores the little‐known story of the métis children of a well‐known figure in French history – Dr Eugène Jamot, who was a medical doctor who had served in the colonial service in French West Africa (AOF) and French Equatorial Africa (AEF) in the early‐twentieth century. Jamot fathered three multiracial children with an African Fulani woman named Fatima Labané who originated from AEF. In patriating them to France, Jamot established a de facto acknowledgement of paternity and fostered domestic life with/for and paternal care for his children. His death in April 1937 left his three children in a state of legal, social and economic vulnerability. Over the course of several years, his oldest son Louis Desnaute, Jamot's White French male friends and professional colleagues and Labané endeavoured to form a safety net, care consisting of money, the mobilisation of citizenship law and the exercise of social resources of citizenship rights for the children to secure and affirm their belonging in/to France. This article argues that an infrastructure of feelings – paternalism, maternalism, loyalty, vulnerability, pathos, affection, shame, anger, despair and anxiety – facilitated relational rupture and repair for the three children and their children from the colonial to postcolonial periods.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.759
Threshold uncertainty score0.401

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.192
Teacher spread0.173 · 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