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Article Evaluation: The article I wanted to evaluate was 'double consciousness'. The article seems good overall, but there were a few aspects worth mentioning. Parts of the article, particularly in the middle, seemed to be meandering. It seemed like too much of a digression when they related the 'sweet chariot' poem and the flying Africans. They made sense, but there was little to tie them back to the topic after they were mentioned. The article seemed more heavily focused on the double consciousness of African Americans to the extent that it included African folklore. While the article does address double consciousness with respect to feminism, it doesn't cover any other types besides those too. The citations work fine. The only issue is that some words should have hyperlinks and some linked readings aren't even mentioned in the body of the article. There is a healthy talk page. Some of the issues brought up on the talk page have still not been addressed yet. The conversations are considerate and nonviolent. The article is part of several philosophical wikiprojects.

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Double consciousness is a term describing the internal conflict experienced by subordinated groups in an oppressive society. It was coined by W. E. B. Du Bois with reference to African American "double consciousness," including his own, and published in the autoethnographic work, The Souls of Black Folk.

Planned Contribution: (post some ideas on talk page) I went ahead and assigned myself to the "double consciousness" article. Although, it is still in the process of being edited, I still feel as though there are some aspects that I could add to it that aren't being addressed. I plan to tie the parts in the middle back to the overall section so it doesn't seem like much of a digression. I also would like to add a bit more about double consciousness and feminism. I want to talk about double consciousness with regards to other minorities. I also went through and realized a couple citations and hyperlinks were missing: I would like to add those in as well. On a final note, there are some people who are only mentioned as further readings but are not actually mentioned in the article. One such person is 'Paul Gilroy'. I plan to add a bit about him as well.

Bibliography: Just thought I'd add a list of relevant sources for a bibliography. This is useful for anyone who wants to get a bit more info on a certain section. Actual citations will still be needed.

http://scua.library.umass.edu/duboisopedia/doku.php?id=about:double_consciousness

Du Bois, W. E. B. (1903). The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Dover Publications.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-consciousness/    > for the user that wanted to add info about double consciousness as a psychological concept. Also contains a huge list of useful literature.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug03/souls/defpg.html

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/docs/WEBDuBois-Souls_of_Black_Folk-1903.pdf   > contains an easy-access pdf link to the entire work. Use the find tool if you want to look for anything specific.

Final Article Draft: I'm drafting a section about Paul Gilroy.

Gilroy and the Black Atlantic
Paul Gilroy used theories of culture and race to the study and construction of African American intellectual history. He is known especially for marking a turning point in the study of the African diasporas. His book "The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness" (1993) introduces the Black Atlantic as a source for cultural construction. He based this on the Atlantic slave trade and marked it as the foundation for the diaspora. He recognized the significance of European and African transnational travel as a foundation for double consciousness. His theory of double consciousness involves the Black Atlantic in the internal struggle to reconcile being both European and Black, which was his main focus. He even characterized the Black Atlantic by the influence of slave trade "routes" on black identity. He aimed to unify black culture with the connection to the homeland as well the cultural exchanges that occurred afterward. He was also influential in the political black British movement, in which he popularized his theories.

Double consciousness for women of color
Among the double burdens that feminists faced was fighting for women's' rights as well as rights for people of color. Frances M. Beale wrote that the situation of black women was full of misconceptions and distortions of the truth. In her pamphlet "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female", she claimed that capitalism was the direct forebearer of racism because the system was indirectly a way to destroy the humanity of black people.

// - needs edit "In any society where men are not yet free, women are less free because we are further enslaved because we [African American women] are enslaved by our sex." Many African American women turned towards feminism in their fight against oppression because "there was an awareness that they were being treated as second-class citizens within the Civil Right's movement of the 60's." Due to this many women felt that they were being asked to choose between "a Black movement that primarily served the interest of Black male patriarchs and a women's movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women."

The history of White women and Black women is also very different because Black women did not have the option to not do their housework as they were enslaved and it was their actual job to do so in the 18thcentury. Also it is predominant today and in history that Black women provide for their families in the sense of home care and labor for money, whereas in the past White women had not experienced that double duty. Despite these differences Black women today "have urged that the two groups attempt to negotiate their differences and find common cause."

Another way at looking at Double Consciousness is as a "Double Burden" as quoted by Shulamith Firestone in her book The Dialectic of Sex. Her take is that "sexism is racism extended". //

I could not find a proper image from Wikipedia Commons that was relevant to the article

Improvement notes: I would like to add more in the future. I want to read up on different authors and add more people to the article. I didn't have as many sources as I wanted because it takes time to find credible sources with relevant and reliable information on the topic that isn't already cited. I would also like to come back later and edit the grammar content.

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