User:Cbshier/sandbox

This is my sandbox page for practicing editing on Wikipedia for my Black Lives and Deaths coursework.

Eugenics in the United States material
The 1978 Federal Sterilization Regulations, created by the Department of Health and Human Services, outline a variety of prohibited sterilization practices that were often used previously to coerce or force women into sterilization. These were intended to prevent such eugenics and neo-eugenics as resulted in the involuntary sterilization of large groups of poor and minority women. Such practices include: not conveying to patients that sterilization is permanent and irreversible, in their own language (including the option to end the process or procedure at any time without conceding any future medical attention or federal benefits, the ability to ask any and all questions about the procedure and its ramifications, the requirement that the consent seeker describes the procedure fully including any and all possible discomforts and/or side-effects and any and all benefits of sterilization); failing to provide alternative information about methods of contraception, family planning, or pregnancy termination that are nonpermanent and/or irreversible (this includes abortion); conditioning receiving welfare and/or Medicaid benefits by the individual or his/her children on the individuals "consenting" to permanent sterilization; tying elected abortion to compulsory sterilization (cannot receive a sought out abortion without "consenting" to sterilization; using hysterectomy as sterilization; and subjecting minors and the mentally incompetent to sterilization. The regulations also include an extension of the informed consent waiting period from 72 hours to 30 days (with a maximum of 180 days between informed consent and the sterilization procedure).

However, several studies have indicated that the forms are often dense and complex and beyond the literacy aptitude of the average American, and those seeking publicly funded sterilization are more likely to possess below-average literacy skills. High levels of misinformation concerning sterilization still exist among individuals who have already undergone sterilization procedures, with permanence being one of the most common gray factors.

Three potential articles submission

 * 1) The fatal shooting of Christian Taylor, a 19 year old unarmed football player shot and killed at a car dealership in Texas. (a page for this does not currently exist).
 * 2) The involuntary sterilization of black women, particularly during the 1970's.  The topic is discussed on the pages Eugenics in the United States and Compulsory sterilization but this specific topic is mostly brushed over.
 * 3) The fatal shooting of Darrius Stewart, a 19 year old who was unarmed and was killed during a struggle when police attempted to handcuff him.  His identity had been mistaken for a different Darrius Stewart with several warrants out for his arrest. (a page for this does not currently exist).

Edit suggestions for "slave breeding" page
The section in Historical Context called "End of the american slave trade" could be improved by removing much of the discussion at the end regarding the commoditization and management of slaves. These just don't seem very relevant to this particular topic and thus confuse the transition from "End of the american slave trade" to "Breeding in response to end of slave imports." Information is also repeated in multiple sections regarding the invention of the cotton gin and the treatment of slaves as chattel--these should be removed from at least one and potentially all of the sections in which they occur. The section in Dynamics called "Natural increase vs. systematic breeding" is also pretty biased because it only gives the opinion by two individuals who conform to the natural increase theory. Adding in information about support for the systematic breeding theory would greatly improve this section. I think the topic order is very effective but weight needs to be shifted away from the topics talking about slavery generally and more towards the sections specifically about slave breeding. Documentation and citation is strong overall but can be improved in some areas (as said above).