Bibliographic record
Abstract
In light of the latest Black Lives Matter movement, this essay revisits the convoluted Afro-Korean history in the U.S. that culminated in the 1992 Los Angeles riots to rethink the meaning of solidarity in the context of racial capitalism. The unprecedented global movement towards transnational and cross-racial alliances has evoked the history of racial triangulation and mutual struggle under white supremacy, as the two racial minorities have vied for political and cultural citizenship. Korean-Canadian writer Ins Choi’s 2011 stage play Kim’s Convenience offers a contemporary Korean American perspective on the changing contours of the Afro-Korean relationship at a time when previous forms of race-based community disintegrate following the logic of individual success and upward mobility. Set in a small corner store owned by a first-generation Korean immigrant located in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Toronto, mundane interactions between the Kims and black customers remind the audience of particular racial perceptions and relationships that operate in this historically charged space within the American cultural imagination. As the play progresses, the Korean-owned convenience store becomes a performative site of transformation where racial histories are evoked and can be reimagined. Kim’s Convenience asks that we move beyond the racial past and envision a collective future against structural racism that persists in the form of transnational corporate capitalism.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".