User:Kel5142/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 title
 * Angola–Cuba relations


 * Article Evaluation


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * The article's content is relevant to the topic. The entire article talks about the military, diplomatic and economic relations between Cuba and Angola
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * The article is ABSOLUTELY NOT written neutrally. The article is extremely anti-Marxist, very anti-Cuba, and very anti-MPLA. I would even say that the article is not very critical of apartheid South Africa and the United States. It is not neutral


 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * There are two whole sections, "1980s" and "Post-Peace Accord relationship," that have no citations.


 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Of the sections that contain citations, there seems to be one encyclopedic citation, and the vast majority of the other citations come from books that are not academic presses (potentially not peer-reviewed).


 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * The article does cover historically underrepresented/misrepresented populations, such as Angolans and Cubans.

Sources


 * Castro, Fidel, Castro Raúl, Nelson Mandela, Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, Sío Wong Moisés, Luis Alfonso Zayas, and García Márquez Gabriel. Cuba & Angola: Fighting for Africa's Freedom and Our Own : Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Nelson Mandela, the Cuban Five in Angola : In Their Own Words, Including Accounts by Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, Moises Sío Wong, Luis Alfonso Zayas and Gabriel García Márquez on Operation Carlota. Edited by Mary-Alice Waters. New York: Pathfinder, 2013.
 * Gleijeses, Piero. "Moscow's Proxy? Cuba and Africa 1975-1988." Journal of Cold War Studies 8, no. 4 (2006): 98-146. muse.jhu.edu/article/204619.
 * Kersh, Daliany Jerónimo. 2018. “Cuba and Angola: The War for Freedom.” International Journal of Cuban Studies 10 (2): 272–74. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=134411912&site=ehost-live.
 * Rodríguez Ruiz, Pablo. "The Experience of Multidisciplinary Research into Angola's National Question: Anthropology in a war context." Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994 : Writing an Alternative Atlantic History, Emmanuel Alcaraz, Bernardo J Capamba André, Elina Djebbar, João Felipe Gonçalves, Charlotte Grabli, Christine Hatzky, Héloïse Kiriakou, et al, 109-129. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2020. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2480495&site=ehost-live.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Military dictatorship in Brazil


 * Article Evaluation


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * All of the content in the article is about the period of the military dictatorship in Brazil (and the background to why it occurred), so it is relevant.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * It is on the verge of neutrality, but there seemed to be an underlying tinge of anti-communism. There was one sentence in the entire article that delegitimized anti-communist sentiment, but that leads me to believe that it was an edit from someone else (who did not write the large swaths of the article). It does reveal the active role that the United States played in the coup and training the Brazilian military on torture, which (in my opinion) helps neutralize the anti-communist undertones.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Each claim does not have a citation. There were many sections, where the superscript said "citation needed."
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * A lot of the citations seem to be from governmental reports and news articles, so I would say they are not the most reliable (since the majority of them are note peer-reviewed).
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * I'm assuming that because this article falls within the WikiProject Brazil (the general fact that it's in a WikiProject), it covers a historically underrepresented subject (Brazilian history and politics). However, I did think it was bizarre that Afro-Brazilians were never mentioned in the article, which is certainly a historically mis/underrepresented population. Indigenous Brazilians were briefly mentioned when discussing the neglect of support for that population during the dictatorship, but even then, it was only a sentence; this is not enough.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * The most recent thing mentioned on the Talk Page of the article, interestingly enough, was about the mass death of indigenous Brazilians during the dictatorship. The user questions why the writer decided to say that the armed forces deny their responsibility in the negligence of indigenous populations, although the same sentence mentions that the negligent deaths were confirmed.


 * Sources


 * Chirio, Maud. 2018. Politics in Uniform : Military Officers and Dictatorship in Brazil, 1960-80. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1841254&site=ehost-live.
 * Corrêa, Marilia. “Military Resistance to the Brazilian Coup: The Fight of Officers and Soldiers against Authoritarian Rule, 1964–67.” The Americas 77, no. 2 (2020): 275–300. https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2019.112.
 * French, John D. “They Don't Wear Black-Tie: Intellectuals and Workers in São Paulo, Brazil, 1958–1981.” International Labor and Working-Class History 59 (2001): 60–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547901004094.
 * Serbin, Kenneth P. 2019. From Revolution to Power in Brazil : How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership. Helen Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2502112&site=ehost-live.



Option 3

 * Article title
 * Rassemblement Démocratique Africain


 * Article Evaluation


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * All of the content in the article is about the history of the RDA, so it is relevant.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * It is not written neutrally. It is biased towards Félix Houphouët-Boigny through its' portrayal of him as the sole founder and leader of the RDA. It also has any-communist undertones because it does not provide the reasoning to why the PCF was ousted from power and why the ruling French elite were frightened by an alliance between the PCF and RDA. It also tells the history of the RDA through the perspective of African colonial elites who were either educated in the West and/or belonged to a class that acquiesced to French colonial rule.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Most claims have citations (with the exception of the majority of the lead section).
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * A fair amount of the citations originate for publications out of university presses, so that is reliable. However, half of the sources originate from the 20th century, so it may not be up-to-date (or very reliable).
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * The article tackles Wikipedia's equity gaps by covering the history of several West and Equatorial African nations, particularly throughout the colonial period.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * I am the last person, who commented on the Talk Page (a part of the Evaluating an Article assignment). I critiqued the article for it's anti-communist undertones that lead the article to miss large swaths of information about the causes for immediate independence in Guinea and the rest of the formerly French West/Equatorial African colonies.


 * Sources
 * Lawler, Nancy. “Reform and Repression under the Free French: Economic and Political Transformation in the Côte D'Ivoire, 1942–45.” Africa 60, no. 1 (1990): 88–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/1160428.
 * Schmidt, Elizabeth. “Anticolonial Nationalism in French West Africa: What Made Guinea Unique?” African Studies Review 52, no. 2 (2009): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0219.
 * Schmidt, Elizabeth. Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958. Western African Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press (2007). https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=829445&site=ehost-live.
 * Schmidt, Elizabeth. “Cold War in Guinea: The Rassemblement Démocratique Africain and the Struggle Over Communism, 1950–1958.” The Journal of African History 48, no. 1 (2007): 95–121. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853707002551.
 * Schmidt, Elizabeth. “Cold War in Guinea: The Rassemblement Démocratique Africain and the Struggle Over Communism, 1950–1958.” The Journal of African History 48, no. 1 (2007): 95–121. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853707002551.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde


 * Article Evaluation


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * All of the content is about the history of the PAIGC (including its founding), so it is relevant.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * I guess one could say that it is written neutrally since it does not condemn the party's original ideology (Marxism-Leninism) nor its future politics. It honestly seems like it is lacking a lot of information because it does not explain the political ideology of the party at its founding, during the 11 year war against the Portuguese, during the first years of independence, during the Civil War or the present day. It also does not explain the work that the PAIGC did throughout the majority of its history. It briefly talks about leaders and their squabbles.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * There are some paragraphs that do not have citations.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * It seems like most of the citations originate from governmental documents, articles and non-academic books. There was one citation that was from a publication of Penn State University Press. Altogether, the citations do not seem the most reliable.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * The article is a part of several WikiProjects, including socialism, Africa, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bisseau, so I would say that it tackles Wikipedia's equity gaps. It needs more information, and it is demonstrated through its all-around Start Class rating.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * The most relevant (recent) comment on the Talk Page was a user arguing that the coup d'état in Portugal was not in part caused by their bankruptcy, since they supposedly possessed much gold. From the readings I've done, they seemed to indicate that Portugal's failing economy (especially because of its war expenditures in the colonies) led to mass discontent amongst working Portuguese people and soldiers, leading to the Carnation revolution. I will consider commenting this when I find the proper peer-reviewed citation.


 * Sources

Borges Sónia Vaz. Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness : The Paigc Education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978. Studia Educationis Historica = Studies in the History of Education, Vol. 4. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2019.

Gomes, Patricia. 2008. “The International Relations in the Politics of the Partido Africano Da Independência Da Guiné e Cabo Verde.” Portuguese Journal of Social Science 7 (2): 115–30. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=34971231&site=ehost-live.

Karibe Mendy, Peter. 2019. Amílcar Cabral : A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary. Ohio Short Histories of Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2362919&site=ehost-live.

Tomás António. Amílcar Cabral : The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist. INSERT-MISSING-SERVICE-NAME. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197525579.001.0001.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Léopold Sédar Senghor


 * Article Evaluation


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * The article content is mostly relevant. I did think that the section about the origin of his family name was unnecessary.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * The article does not critique Senghor's actions during the colonial and post-colonial era, so I guess it sort of biased towards preserving his legacy. For example, I would suggest that it go into more detail about Mamadou Dia and their disagreements, rather than taking it at face-value that Dia staged a coup and deserved 12 years of imprisonment.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * There are some sections, including the lead and "Legacy," that do not have citations (or few).
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * There are a some citations that come from academic presses, so they are fairly reliable.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * I guess this article technically tackle Wikipedia's equity gaps because it's involved in several WikiProjects (including Senegal).
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.


 * Sources

Berktay, Aslı. “Negritude and African Socialism: Rhetorical Devices for Overcoming Social Divides.” Third Text 24, no. 2 (2010): 205–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528821003722207.

Celarent, Barbara. “''Liberté 1: Negritude Et Humanisme. by Léopold Sédar Senghor. Paris: Éditions Du Seuil, 1964. Pp. 445. on African Socialism''. by Léopold Sédar Senghor. Translated by, Mercer Cook. New York: Praeger, 1964. Pp. 173.” American Journal of Sociology 119, no. 1 (2013): 299–305. https://doi.org/10.1086/673281.

Smulewicz-Zucker, Gregory R., and Schields, Chelsea. The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Wilder, Gary. Freedom Time : Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central.