Remembering the Duvalier era: \nResistance, Exile, and Solidarity in the Life Stories of Haitian-Montrealers
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Abstract
From 2008 to 2012, Haitian survivors in Montreal were invited to share their memories of the Duvalier dictatorship for the oral history project the “Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations.” In their interviews, they recalled memories of life in Haiti before and during François Duvalier’s rule, as well as their experiences of exile after fleeing the country. In most cases, the stories they shared revolved around violence and the hardship they experienced after forced displacement. Other times, however, they recounted stories of resilience, resistance, and hope. This thesis explores this aspect of their life stories and asks how Haitian-Montrealers challenged the history of the Duvalier dictatorship in their interviews for the Montreal Life Stories project. As first wave Haitian exiles, some of these individuals took part in resistance against the Duvalier regime in Haiti, while others became involved in political and social causes after fleeing into exile. While their journeys as political activists varied, the ways in which they told their life stories as survivors shared striking similarities. In focusing on how they recounted their experiences of activism and exile in their interviews, as well as the reasons why they recounted them as they did, this thesis offers a more complete account of how Haitian-Montrealers remembered the Duvalier era for the Montreal Life Stories project. Additionally, it also explores the transnational connections and political solidarities they forged after fleeing Haiti, revealing the ways in which their lives and experiences have since extended beyond the legacy of the Duvalier regime.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".