User:Ckw27/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

 * Article: Fire!!
 * Fire!!


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content in the article is relevant and appears neutral, but there is not much information. Not all claims have a citation, but the citations that are included do seem to be from reliable sources. This article does cover a historically underrepresented group, yet does not go much in depth.


 * Sources
 * Potential new sources:
 * - Project Muse: "On Time, In Time, Through Time: Aaron Douglas, Fire!! and the Writers of the Harlem Renaissance" by Farah Jasmine Griffin
 * - "What Beauty is Their Own: Fire!! 's Significance in the Harlem Renaissance" by Yvonne Elizabeth Price
 * - "Desires Made Manifest: The Queer Modernism of Wallace Thurman's Fire!!" by Matthew N. Hannah

Option 2

 * Article: Florence Emery Jones
 * https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Emery_Jones
 * Article Evaluation
 * There is very little information on Florence Jones, on both the French and English Wikipedia pages. The content is neutral, and when claims are made they are cited from mostly reliable sources. This biographical article does cover a member of a historically underrepresented group, as Black women are rarely primarily featured.


 * Sources
 * Potential new sources:
 * - "Florence's Place: Host(ess)ing Revolution in Interwar Black Paris" by Marina Magloire
 * - "Whosoever Doubts My Power: Conjuring Feminism in the Interwar Black Diaspora" by Marina Sofia Magloire
 * - "Les standards du jazz: encyclopédie alphabétique des classiques du genre : précédée d'une introduction au jazz (musique et psychanalyse)" by Jean-Tristan Richard

Option 3

 * Article: Negrophilia
 * Negrophilia


 * Article Evaluation
 * In addition to the introduction section for the article, there is only one section ("The Bal Nègre"); however, there is more information that the previous two pages. The content, about French fetishization and sexualization of black culture, is neutral and presents the objective truth, but there are not citations for all claims. The sources seem reputable. This topic does fall under the category of historically underrepresented group.


 * Sources
 * Potential new sources:
 * - "Fetishes and motorcars: Negrophilia in French modernism" by Bernard Gendron
 * - "Soleil noir: Race, gender and colonialism in interwar Paris" by Jennifer Anne Boittin
 * - "The 'Negro Boxer' as Contested Cultural Icon: 'Negrophilia' and Sport in Pre-War Europe" by Marjet Derks

Option 4

 * Article: Zydeco music
 * Zydeco


 * Article Evaluation
 * There is a decent amount of information, from origin of the term to evolution of the music. The article seems neutral, and claims are cited from reliable sources. Creole and Cajun culture has often been misrepresented in mainstream sources, but this article strives to paint a better picture.


 * Sources
 * Potential sources:
 * - "The Geography of Zydeco Music" by Robert Kuhlken and Rocky Sexton
 * - "Let the Good Times Unroll: Music and Race Relations in Southwest Louisiana" by Mark Mattern
 * - "Zydeco and Mardi Gras: Creole Identity and Performance Genres in Rural French Louisiana (Music, Carnival, Ethnicity, Afro-Americans)" by Nicholas Randolph Spitzer

Option 5

 * Article: Ada "Bricktop" Smith
 * Ada "Bricktop" Smith


 * Article Evaluation
 * Although there is a decent amount of information on Ada "Bricktop" Smith, there are many spots that need citations. There are quite a few citations and they do seem reputable. Bricktop is likely a figure that not many people know about.


 * Sources
 * Potential sources:
 * - "'Let me see you dance': Ada 'Bricktop' Smith, the Charleston, and Racial Commodification in Interwar France" by Matthew McMahan
 * - "Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars" by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (review)
 * - "From Jim Crow to Racial Tolerance: The African-American Experience During Interwar Period Paris" by Nicole Schindel