User:Oekct/Evaluate an Article

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Asian American movement - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article with my fellow classmates because we felt that this particular article was lacking in information, especially contemporary updates. This article matters considering the uptick in anti-Asian sentiment as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic; the need for more awareness in society and the academic world on Asian American movements seemed crucial to the progression and recognition of live history. My first impression of the article was that it seemed neglected, almost forgotten about, even irrelevant, which didn't make sense to me considering the content and ideas of the article are particularly relevant to today's time.

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There seemed to be a missing contemporary aspect to the article. Although the Asian American movement gained its big break in the 1960s, when compared to articles on the development of civil rights and the African American movement up to even the Black Lives Matter movement, there appeared to be a large disconnect between the past and the present in the Asian American movement article. Therefore, I would like to improve that aspect of the article by including the continue efforts of the Asian American movements in both the mainstream and academia.

The article also seemed to focus primarily on specific groups of Asians, belying the stereotype that a person's first, immediate thought of what Asian American in America looked like it was Chinese, Japanese or Korean. However, I would improve this article by including more perspectives of the Asian American movement that are not Eastern Asian-centric.

The article comes across as fairly objective, not siding one way or the other in terms of racial bias. The citations and references listed at the bottom of the article are reputable in that many of the authors were those that were actively part of the Asian American movement in the 1960s and later, thereby providing a more credible touch to the article. The way the article stops at a few paragraphs under "Early Developments" shows that there was never a follow-up to expand further after the early developments of the Asian American movement.

On the talk page, a few uses bring up insightful points regarding the articles lack of contributions and information - namely the lack of citations and references, the broadness of the list of key figures, and overall inclusion of more modern participations in Asian American movements. Considering the article is classified as a C level article, there is definitely room for improvement.