White Leisure, Black Labour, and Global Afro-Diasporic Entanglements in the Streaming Era: A Case Study of <i>Sam: Ein Sachse</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, we provide a reading of Sam: Ein Sachse ( Sam: A Saxon, directed by Soleen Yusef and Sarah Blaßkiewitz) in terms of the media politics it presents as a Disney+ branded series. The miniseries, which is based on Black German public figure Samuel Meffire’s biography, is a 2023 transnational co-production made with an international market in mind. Meffire’s biography was narrativized once before as a documentary; this fictionalized version exhibits close ties between its Disney+ and Hulu branding and its storytelling and aesthetics. The show recounts Meffire’s story as a narrative of resilience and a search for belonging in a white normative Germany of the 1980s and 1990s. We suggest that the streaming format and brand of Disney+ inevitably shape what is possible for visualizing such a story. We argue that the miniseries struggles between depicting racism as a structural problem in both East and West Germany and suggesting that how a victim responds to racism is primarily an individual problem.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".