“Jamaican” as Synecdoche for\nBlack Male Identification:\nPerforming Blackness in Toronto
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Abstract
Findings from youth focus groups in Jamaica and Canada between spring and summer 2013 elucidate the ways in which the construction of Jamaican masculinity is both deployed and challenged by Black youth in Toronto. In Toronto, where Jamaicans make up the largest share of Black communities, Jamaica and Jamaicanness are made to stand in for a homogenous Blackness that satisfies two competing desires. On the one hand, “Jamaican,” as a powerful sign of cultural difference, is used to entrench racist discursive narratives that collapse Blackness into a fixed and fearsome category. On the other hand, Black youth of various cultural backgrounds deploy Jamaica and Jamaicanness as modes of community and resistance, even as they challenge efforts to collapse their racialized intersectional differences into a Black nonparticularity. Black youth thus unsettle the city’s racist narrative by centring modes of identity formation grounded in their own political agency and practices of survival. Abstract: Les données recueillies lors de discussions thématiques de groupes de jeunes en Jamaïque et au Canada entre le printemps et l’été 2013 éclairent la façon dont la construction de la masculinité jamaïcaine est à la fois élaborée et contestée par les jeunes Noirs de Toronto. À Toronto, où les Jamaïcains constituent la plus grande partie des communautés noires, la Jamaïque et le fait d’être jamaïcain servent à exprimer une « Noirité » qui répond à deux désirs rivaux. D’un côté, l’adjectif « jamaïcain », en tant que signe puissant de différence culturelle, sert à repousser les discours racistes qui associent la « Noirité » à une catégorie fixe et effrayante. De l’autre côté, les jeunes Noirs d’origines culturelles diverses se servent de la Jamaïque et des caractéristiques jamaïcaines comme de modes de résistance et de communauté, même lorsqu’ils contestent les tentatives de confondre leurs différences intersectionnelles racialisées en un non-particularisme noir. Les jeunes Noirs perturbent donc le discours urbain raciste en regroupant des modes de formation identitaire enracinés dans leur propre agir politique et leurs pratiques de survie.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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