Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that the figure of the joyful girl in fiesta served as an important site of contest over race, place, and memory in South Texas during the 1950s. The joyful girl has played a significant, if overlooked, role in fiesta traditions in South Texas: as a cultural symbol onto whom joy has been projected and as a historical actor who has experienced and shared joy with her community by participating in fiesta. This article first examines girlhood in the Texas Citrus Fiesta in Mission, Texas, an Anglo-run festival founded by citrus industry leaders that functioned as a formal place-marketing pageant. The fiesta’s promotional images often featured joyful Anglo American girls who served as symbols of white reproductive futurity in the region. Mexican American girls seldom appeared, but when they did, they appeared as figures in a timeless romanticized past that minimized the role of Mexican American girls in contemporary politics. Second, this article turns to the informal fiestas crafted by a Mexican American girl in her daily life growing up in Mission during the 1950s. Drawing on oral history, it shows how she actively used joyful song to affirm her ethnic Mexican cultural heritage while also drawing together communities across a racial divide. She challenged the racial politics asserted by the Texas Citrus Fiesta, her hometown’s official fiesta.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 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".