Contemporary Relevance of Anne Moody and Imprisoned Intellectual Thought: Anti-Critical Race Theory Ban, Black Women, and the Politics of Structural Denial
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mississippi’s anti-critical race theory (CRT) law enacted in 2022 illustrates the continuity of structural racism, anti-blackness, and political abandonment that sees Black communities/people as deserving of punishment and regards Black literature as contraband. Glen Conley, an imprisoned citizen, examines and teaches Anne Moody, a foot soldier in the Civil Rights Movement, within a Mississippi prison context. Anne Moody’s 1968 memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi, chronicles her life growing up in the Deep South during the 1940s and 1950s. Her book is used across several academic disciplines. However, the study of Moody within the prison context is not well known. Conley’s pedagogical approach and scholarly contributions explore Moody’s life and seminal text, bringing renewed attention to themes of Black mental health, survival, and resistance under a harsh Southern regime. This paper argues that Moody’s voice is of increased importance in a political climate where we are witnessing more overt forms of legislated anti-Blackness and systemic erasure. Drawing on Lewis Gordon’s conceptualization of anti-Blackness, this paper extends the theorization of the simultaneous operation of the politics of invisibility and hypervisibility that marks Black life. Such interplay is evidenced by the hyper-policing and punishment of Black women, girls, and trans women witnessed today.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| 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".