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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

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 * Chinese Americans
 * Article Evaluation:Within this article, I would be specifically interested in expanding its discussion on the Third Wave of Chinese American immigration. Currently, this section is completely blank. From a cultural standpoint, I think that filling out this section would be particularly pertinent to many Chinese Americans today, of which many belong to this Third Wave of immigration. Additionally, I noticed that there is another wikipedia article dedicated to the “History of Chinese Americans”. However, even within this article I noticed that its discussion of the third wave of Chinese American immigration is limited to the reconciliation of Chinese culture when assimilating into American society (e.g. Chinese schools, celebrating National Day of PRC in Chinatowns) with little discussion on the laws/policies that supported or challenged Chinese immigration and assimilation into America. I also found it interesting that Wikipedia classified the Third Wave as 1980 to present when it seems like most sources I came across classify it as 1965 to present, marked by the Immigration Act of 1965. If I choose this article this is something I would like to look into.
 * Sources:Wang, L. Ling-chi. “Roots and Changing Identity of the Chinese in the United States.” Daedalus, vol. 120, no. 2, 1991, pp. 181–206. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20025379 . Accessed 7 Oct. 2023. Chen, Hsiang-shui. “Patterns of Chinese Settlement in the United States.” Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York, Cornell University Press, 1992, pp. 3–26. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt207g616.5 . Accessed 7 Oct. 2023. Liu Hong, and 劉宏. “Explaining the Dynamics and Patterns of Chinese Emigration since 1980: A Historical and Demographic Perspective / 1980 年以來中國國際移民潮的動力與模式： 歷史的和人口的考察.” Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2005, pp. 92–110. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23500272 . Accessed 7 Oct. 2023.

Option 2

 * Article title:Model minority myth
 * Article Evaluation:This article contains a definition of the model minority myth, and a brief overview of its origins and criticisms. However, its current descriptions are very limited. For example, though it mentions that it was originally used to describe the Japanese American community, it fails to incorporate the greater US-Japan policies during WWII that may have contributed to the conception of such a term (e.g. the benefit of Japan as an ally of the US in its imperialist ambitions). Moreover, similar to my criticism of the origins and history section, I think that the criticism and impact section could benefit from the incorporation of more explicit examples. The sources used so far look credible so I don’t think that this area needs much editing. Moreover, I believe that this article would be particularly useful to edit because the model minority myth is a significant tension that many Asian Americans experience, and it was flagged as “start class”.
 * Sources: https://depts.washington.edu/sibl/Publications/Model%20Minority%20Section%20(2011).pdf Choi, Yoonsun, and Benjamin B Lahey. “Testing the Model Minority Stereotype: Youth Behaviors across Racial and Ethnic Groups.” The Social service review vol. 80,3 (2006): 419-452. doi:10.1086/505288 Yi, Varaxy, and Samuel D. Museus. "Model minority myth." The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of race, ethnicity, and nationalism (2015): 1-2.  Museus, Samuel D., and Peter N. Kiang. "Deconstructing the model minority myth and how it contributes to the invisible minority reality in higher education research." New directions for institutional research 2009.142 (2009): 5-15.

Option 3

 * Article title:Wong Chin Foo
 * Article Evaluation:This article was rated “start-class”. Hence, I thought that it might be a good article to build on given our in-class discussions that seemed to point to the conclusion that Wong was an important figure in Asian American history, but also a largely forgotten one. Wong’s article has a large biography section, but a much smaller section on his activism. If I were to choose this article, I would be interested in furthering the discussion of Wong’s work “Why am I not a heathen?” and why specifically his rejection of Christianity fit into his cultural advocacy. Moreover, I think it would be interesting to include more on his later life to illustrate better why Wong may have been forgotten. It seems like there aren’t many sources that have written about Wong, and most of the sources I found were already cited in the Wikipedia article. Thus, I would be interested in looking into these sources and seeing whether this is more information I could pull from these sources.
 * Sources:Lee, Yan Phou. "Why I Am Not a Heathen. A Rejoinder to Wong Chin Foo." the North American review 145.370 (1887): 306-312. Seligman, Scott D. The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo. Vol. 1. Hong Kong University Press, 2013.

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