MEXICANIDAD AND THE RACIAL IMPLICATIONS OF MEZTIZAJE THROUGH HORROR AND FANTASY IN SILVIA MORENO GARCIA’S NOVELS: MEXICAN GOTHIC (2020), DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU (2022) AND SILVER NITRATE (2023)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mexicanidad was a movement influenced by Indigenismo that merged Spanish and Indigenous heritage, creating a movement merging culture into a homogenous racial identity represented by the Spanish caste level of Mestizo. Literature explaining and exploring the ideas behind mestizaje begin to appear after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, a 21st-century Mexican-Canadian author, begins to explore the embedded racism in Mexican society in her three novels: Mexican Gothic (2020), Daughter of Doctor Moreau (2022), and Silver Nitrate (2023). In her novels, she uses fantasy and horror elements to illustrate the monstrosity behind colonialism and eugenics. Through José Vasconcelos' The Cosmic Race, Moreno-Garcia explores mestizaje as a weapon against human monsters.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".