User:LiliaCD/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: California Genocide :
 * Article Evaluation:
 * neutral stance
 * within paragraph about background of indigenous people, could include within-tribal cultures (instead of just hunter-gather nature)--stop feeding into American exceptionalism
 * Contact section could include discussion on missions and missionary education in California 5th grade
 * Violence statistics could include recent violence--could update with idea of COVID killings
 * Like that there is a section regarding economic relationship to genocide
 * Great factual information in arguments about "genocide" being the appropriate term
 * In the "TALK" section lots of people fact checked his articles and quotes and provided link
 * Sources: :https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-08/california-tribes-missing-murdered-women-capitol-laws-violence-native-indigenous :https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/03/california-indigenous-fear-covid-deaths-undercounted/:
 * Sources: :https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-08/california-tribes-missing-murdered-women-capitol-laws-violence-native-indigenous :https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/03/california-indigenous-fear-covid-deaths-undercounted/:

Option 2

 * Article title: The 1619 Project :
 * Article Evaluation:
 * kept it very neutral especially considering polarization topic creates
 * Takes readers through dialogue during controversy
 * TALK section: generalization, not neutral enough (positive sentence towards project at the end of every paragraph)
 * Could include quotes from Hannah Jones "Origins" article in background because there she talks about how it came out
 * Sources:
 * (link to Origins in Week 4 This is America course):
 * (link to Origins in Week 4 This is America course):

Option 3

 * Article title: Culture of New England :
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Brings up indigenous as an important part of the establishment of New England culture in introduction, but never after that
 * Sources:
 * (link to New England Exceptionalism Week 4 This is America course)
 * Basic information of colonies: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/new-england-colonies-and-native-americans/:
 * Basic information of colonies: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/new-england-colonies-and-native-americans/:

Option 4

 * Article title: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African communities :
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Weird correlation between police brutality and key workers (reference does not include the link author is making)
 * Doesn't make strong claim in intro about correlation to structural racism, but in health claims that " this disproportionate impact can be explained by the racial inequalities in health insurance"
 * Need article about limited response to stop transmission in prisons
 * Sources:
 * Stats for COVID in prison: https://bjs.ojp.gov/press-release/impact-covid-19-state-and-federal-prisons-march-2020-february-2021#:~:text=Of%20these%20tests%2C%20396%2C300%20(8.2,prisoners%20at%20risk%20of%20exposure.
 * Stats for COVID in prison: https://bjs.ojp.gov/press-release/impact-covid-19-state-and-federal-prisons-march-2020-february-2021#:~:text=Of%20these%20tests%2C%20396%2C300%20(8.2,prisoners%20at%20risk%20of%20exposure.

Option 5

 * Article title: Settler colonialism :
 * Article Evaluation:
 * "early colonial powers generally respected the territorial and political sovereignty of the Indigenous tribes, due to the need to forge local alliances with these tribes against other European colonial powers" NEEDS A CITATION
 * In America section could include quotes from articles about settler colonialism through indigenous lens instead of just colonial and historical quotes
 * Could include other definitions of frontier in introduction instead of just Wolfe's
 * Sources:
 * Frontier: Frontier Legacy of America by Jyotirmaya Tripathy (Week 3 This is America)
 * Settler Colonialism: The Settler Memory of Bacon's Rebellion by Kevin Bruyneel (Week 3 This is America)
 * https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/what-is-settler-colonialism
 * https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630
 * https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630