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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

 * Gender Inequality in English Caribbean
 * This article does amazing at providing its reader with a brief introduction of the persistent gender inequality throughout the Caribbean, however, it needs improvement on using primary sources to establish credibility. It merely states facts with little to no statistics/data or first-hand experiences to give a detailed foundation. Thus, being that this article is on a broad scope of many governments in the Caribbean region, it is significant that it defines basic, universal ideas of gender inequality. In this way, the reader can easily apply all of the knowledge to any Afro-Caribbean country.
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 * Powell, D. (1984). The Role of Women in the Caribbean. Social and Economic Studies, 33(2), 97–122. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27862073
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 * Powell, D. (1984). The Role of Women in the Caribbean. Social and Economic Studies, 33(2), 97–122. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27862073


 * Kempadoo, K. (2003). SEXUALITY IN THE CARIBBEAN: THEORY AND RESEARCH (WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN). Social and Economic Studies, 52(3), 59–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27865341 Links to an external site.

Option 2

 * Enslaved women's resistance in the United States and Caribbean
 * This article is extremely sparse and lacks context. I think there is a lot of potential to make the information more in-depth by adding more historical context. However, tying in the contemporary moment in order to make connections as to why the historical displacement of Black women affect them today. By making this connection, it creates an article that is credible, because it demonstrates the impact of knowing history. More specifically, I would add information that discusses the role of Black women in political offices or other professions today.
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 * Stephanie M. H. Camp. (2002). The Pleasures of Resistance: Enslaved Women and Body Politics in the Plantation South, 1830-1861. The Journal of Southern History, 68(3), 533–572. https://doi.org/10.2307/3070158


 * OWENS, D. C. (2017). BLACK WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES IN SLAVERY AND MEDICINE. In Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (pp. 42–72). University of Georgia Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwt69x.7


 * Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039

Option 3

 * Women in Guyana
 * This article does very well with presenting the information and facts. It gives its reader good analysis on how the difference in racial groups affect both Indo-Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese women in society. On the other, I wish the article included more on women's role in running for government positions and policy-making. I say this, because in Guyana, the government in majority men with Indo-Guyanese men being the majority identity. Thus, by adding information on intersectionality as a central basis for why politics and society is still gendered in Guyana is important for understanding the contemporary period.
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 * Trotz, D. A., & Peake, L. (2001). Work, family and organising: an overview of the contemporary economic, social and political roles of women in Guyana. Social and Economic Studies, 50(2), 67–101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27865233
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 * Trotz, D. A., & Peake, L. (2001). Work, family and organising: an overview of the contemporary economic, social and political roles of women in Guyana. Social and Economic Studies, 50(2), 67–101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27865233


 * Premdas, R. R. (1973). Competitive Party Organizations and Political Integration in a Racially Fragmented State: The Case of Guyana. Caribbean Studies, 12(4), 5–35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25612490

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