User:AlexisGhan/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Patricia Hill Collins

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
When I was looking for an article to evaluate, I was specifically looking for black femme and women feminists. I saw Collins' and recognized the name since she was referenced in one of our readings. Her ideas on black feminism resonated with me, and are things that everyone should consider in their daily lives. I didn't know much about Collins prior to reading this article; however, I feel like the sections give a proper run through of her ideals and accomplishments. The aspect of the article that interested me the most was paragraphs on her books in the career section. All of them portray ideals that I've thought about and have impacted me as a black woman myself. Specifically her book on the public school system.

Evaluate the article
The article does lead with an intro sentence that goes over what Collins does and her birth date. The lead goes over the sections of the article in a paragraph going over her work and the organizations she was and is associated with in a brief manner.

The article goes over Collins' background and early life, education, career, career honors, participation in American Sociological Association and social activism, academic responses, how she's been referenced in other academic spheres, how she's been represented in the media, and her legacy. Most of the information referenced in the article are from years prior to now, but based on the dates they were retrieved, it shows that the article is continually being updated. All the information within the article seems like it belongs. There might be gaps with the info that details her life and accomplishments, but I wouldn't know without doing more research on Collins. Throughout the part of the article that details Collins' early life, there are a lot of mentions of the racial disparity in her life and education. I wish there were paragraphs dedicated her contribution to the existence of intersectionality.

In terms of the article being neutral, the article is autobiographical, so there isn’t much that needs to be neutral other than Collins’ ideals. Her positions on race and gender are structured as her own opinions, so they’re not portrayed as fact even if they have credibility to them.

Not all of the facts are backed by a reliable secondary source. There are a lot of facts that need citations, specific ones on Collins’ early life and her career. The sources are from many different authors. Some of them are current, most of them are from the organizations Collins is apart of. So I can't really tell who most of the authors for the sources are. I noticed a lot of the links throughout the article don't work, so I can't access a lot of them.

In the article's talk page there is a paragraph in the talk pages that refers to the article’s objectivity issues. The person wrote that the article reads like a personal essay. The page also goes over how the external links within the article were changed.

Overall the article is enough surface information to know about Collins, but not enough to thoroughly know about her founding of intersectionality. As well as her involvement in the American Sociological Association.