User:Ngill13/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
 * Afro-Surrealism


 * Article Evaluation
 * The tone of the article is not consistent with the encyclopedic tone wikipedia tries to maintain. There are opinionated and argumentative sections of this article, such as the "Development section". Content is all relevant but not all content serves to be informational.


 * Sources
 * Rollefson, J. Griffith. “The ‘Robot Voodoo Power’ Thesis: Afrofuturism and Anti-Anti-Essentialism from Sun Ra to Kool Keith.” Black Music Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, 2008, pp. 83–109. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25433795. Accessed 2 Oct. 2020.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Oral tradition


 * Article Evaluation
 * There is information missing pertaining to modern oral traditions such as south american and west african traditions of oral history. There is also very little mention of modern uses of oral traditions, sucha as rap cyphers.


 * Sources
 * Hamlet, Janice D. “Word! The African American Oral Tradition and Its Rhetorical Impact on American Popular Culture.” Black History Bulletin, vol. 74, no. 1, 2011, pp. 27–31. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24759732. Accessed 2 Oct. 2020.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Oral history


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is well written article but it does not include discussions on performance and oral history, which is a nuanced aspect of historical transmission. The article has very grammatical errors as it looks to be well maintained.


 * Sources
 * Impey, Angela (2007) 'Sound, memory and dis/placement: Exploring sound, song and performance as oral history in the southern African borderlands.' Oral History Journal, 36 (1). pp. 33-44.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Nigrescence


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is sparse with no adequate citations and grammatical error that exist throughout the article.


 * Sources
 * Vandiver, B.J., Fhagen‐Smith, P.E., Cokley, K.O., Cross, W.E., Jr. and Worrell, F.C. (2001), Cross's Nigrescence Model: From Theory to Scale to Theory. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 29: 174-200. doi:10.1002/j.2161-1912.2001.tb00516.x

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