User:Jobananas/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Désirée's Baby

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article due to the very important nature of the subject- it's a piece of fiction that was written about a time period and specific situation not that often covered (the postbellum treatment of blackness and the effects of racism upon marriages in the period).

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

This article seems to be complete on the literary side but does not cover the historical context fully. It is part of two WikiProjects- Novels and Women writers- and is listed as C-class and Mid-Importance for both. Specifically, I think the articles is missing greater discussion of mixed race slave owners, the racial discomfort of mixed race people in the postbellum era and the greater implication of mixed race marriages of the period as well. The point of view of the text's main character is deeply considered, but the issue Armand is facing as a white-passing slave owner who has both engaged in miscegenation and had a child who appears black is not covered much, if at all.