User:LilliBaldner/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
 * Women in government
 * Article Evaluation
 * There's not a lot of information under the subcategory named "Society," so I think a lot more could be introduced into that subcategory and add more information to it. There is a broad amount of information about women in government covered, but I noticed how most if not every single women it talks about has only been elected or involved since the early 2000's or even later. I found an article that has a good visual representation of women in government from 1997 to 2020, that I think would be useful to add to the section titled "Worldwide status of women's representation in government."


 * Sources

Option 2

 * Article title
 * White defensiveness


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article refers to a book I have actually read that is called White Fragility, which I found to be eye opening and made more sense as to why some people react the ways they do when they're confronted with racism, but that's not exactly I wanted to add to. There's a subcategory about reverse racism, and I think it's become extremely prevalent especially in todays times, so I'd like to make additions to that category preferably. I found an article that points out that whites over time have come to believe that they are now the so-called victims of discrimination and "anti-whiteness," which I think is a component of white defensiveness in not wanting to face the real issues that they have caused.


 * Sources
 * Norton, Michael I., and Samuel R. Sommers. "Whites see racism as a zero-sum game that they are now losing." Perspectives on Psychological science 6, no. 3 (2011): 215-218.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Whitewashing (beauty)


 * Article Evaluation
 * When the article addresses global examples of whitewashing when it comes to beauty it only gives Japan as a subcategory, but I think one of the most important examples of whitewashing beauty would be of women of color in America, and how prevalent it has been. I think you could even address the issue of skin bleaching, I don't know a whole lot about it, but when Japan is addressed it talks about the beauty products used by women there, so I think having another example from around the world would be useful. This article addresses reasoning for skin bleaching, or changing around the world like in Asia, and West Africa.


 * Sources
 * Miller, Tamiyah P. "Skin Lightening, Bleaching, Whiting Phenomenon." (2018).

Option 4

 * Article title
 * MeToo movement


 * Article Evaluation
 * There are two subcategories that I believe more information could be added to and they're titled "Music," as well as "Disregard for incarcerated women." In the "Music" category there was only one musician mentioned, but there's a specific artist I thought of that had issues of sexual assault when it came to the music industry and it's Ke$ha, and she wrote a song called "Praying" that is about the abuse she occurred at the hands of a producer I believe, so that would be something to add to that category. And also think that the section on how there is a disregard for incarcerated women when it comes to the MeToo movement is very prevalent and think there should be more added to that when it comes to how many women get assaulted especially when it comes to the staff in the prisons.


 * Sources
 * https://amavazwfth.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2019/12/07/critical-analysis/
 * Tomaszewska, Magdalena. "In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment. By B. Owen, J. Wells, and J. Pollock (University of California Press, 2017, 260pp.£ 24.95)." (2018): 240-243.
 * https://prismreports.org/2020/09/01/incarcerated-women-fight-for-a-place-in-the-metoo-movement/

Option 5

 * Article title
 * African-American LGBT community


 * Article Evaluation
 * There's a section where they talk about voguing, and I think it'd be cool to add a media representation of that which I think one of the best examples is the show 'Pose' because it's completely about the African-American LGBTQ+ community in New York in the 80's, so I think adding some media representation into that would be useful.


 * Sources
 * https://www.hypercritic.org/watch/series/ryan-murphy-brad-falchuk-steven-canals-pose-ball-culture-and-trans-representation-2018-review/
 * https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/poser-ryan-murphy-trans-queer-color-labor-politics-representation/