Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines how artistic practices rooted in Carnival traditions reimagine belonging as a fluid, transnational process rather than a fixed geographic or cultural identity. Focusing on the works of Ken Daley and Collette “Miss Coco” Murray within the Black and Free art series, it explores how these artists transform cultural celebrations such as Carnival and Caribana into platforms for resistance, resilience, and the preservation of diasporic memory. Through a qualitative, multiple case study approach, the analysis demonstrates how visual and performative art function as living archives—sites where historical consciousness, ritual practice, and creative innovation converge to contest colonial narratives and assert Black presence. Drawing on Black Studies diaspora studies, transnational theory, and intersectionality, this study argues that belonging in the Black and Caribbean diaspora is continuously negotiated through embodied performance, symbolic imagery, and communal celebration. By bridging artistic practice with critical theory, the article contributes to understanding how cultural expression mediates emancipatory discourses of home, identity, and freedom in contexts shaped by displacement and the afterlives of slavery.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".