User:Bonniedog11/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * COVID-19::I would add more information about the unique way that the pandemic affected African Americans. ::Snowden, Lonnie R., and Genevieve Graaf. "COVID-19, social determinants past, present, and future, and African Americans’ health." Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 8 (2021): 12-20.
 * Yancy, Clyde W. "COVID-19 and african americans." Jama 323.19 (2020): 1891-1892. :

Option 2

 * Syphilis:
 * I would go into greater length about the trials of Syphilis on African Americans and the impact that these trials had.:
 * Green, Bernard Lee, et al. "Participation in health education, health promotion, and health research by African Americans: effects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment." Journal of Health Education 28.4 (1997): 196-201. :

Option 3

 * Food deserts:
 * I would explain the correlation between food deserts and African American communities and how it leads to health problems for African Americans.:
 * Crowe, Jessica, Constance Lacy, and Yolanda Columbus. "Barriers to food security and community stress in an urban food desert." Urban Science 2.2 (2018): 46. :

Option 4

 * Incarceration in the United States:
 * I would add onto the section about women incarceration about the abuse that women often experience before/in prison.:
 * Gross, Kali Nicole. "African American women, mass incarceration, and the politics of protection." The Journal of American History 102.1 (2015): 25-33. :

Option 5

 * United States incarceration rate:
 * I would add more information about the history of incarceration in the United States because it explains why the rate for African Americans is so high, which is due to the deep rooted racism in the prison system.:
 * Wacquant, Loï. "From slavery to mass incarceration: Rethinking the ‘race question’in the US." Race, Law and Society. Routledge, 2017. 277-296.: