The Anti-Imperial Frontier : Cuba and the Imagination of the 1960s Radical Left
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On June 15, 1962 a small collection of radical students convened outside Port Huron, Michigan at a meeting center to plot the structure and future of their movement for radical activism. The resulting manifesto that the fledgling Students for a Democratic Society released would come to be known as the Port Huron Statement. This statement laid out a broad program for social change that included disarmament, an end to Cold War competition and support for “publicly disinherited groups.” One of the wider themes of this document, and one that would become a common strand in “New Left” thought throughout the 1960s, was a consciously anti-imperialist rhetoric that was interpreted through the prism of Cuba and the Cuban Revolution. At many different points, the document decries government-sponsored “Cuban invasions” and questions whether the United States, as evidenced by its policy on Cuba, had in fact turned from “its old imperialist ways.” From almost the beginning of the New Left, Cuba was enshrined as a convenient foil for perceived United States imperialist interests.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".