Relating racial and sexual difference in Afronautic Research Lab: Newfoundland and Welcome to Africville
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article applies Kalpana Seshadri’s ideas about race and sexuality to a comparison of two short Canadian films: Dana Inkster’s Welcome to Africville and Camille Turner’s Afronautic Research Lab: Newfoundland . It contrasts the presence of Newfoundland in Turner’s examination of race and enslavement with the absence of Africville in Inkster’s examination of sexuality and settler colonialism to illustrate the relationship between racial and sexual difference and the visibility of Black and/or queer bodies. It argues that Afronautic Research Lab: Newfoundland supports Seshadri’s view that racial identity is rigid when compared to sexual identity; at the same time, Welcome to Africville supports Seshadri’s view that racial difference is no more real than sexual difference, despite having a master signifier (‘Whiteness’) whose purpose is to justify the domination of Black lives.
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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 |
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| 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it