User:Sgs052901/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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parral,_Chihuahua
 * Article title : Needs more info: Parral, Chihuahua
 * Article Evaluation
 * The Parral, Chihuahua page needs critical information added to it regarding the city’s importance in silver mining. The page currently includes information regarding the region’s impact on food, sports, and notable people; however, utilizing Resendez's The Other Slavery one could add information regarding the economic productivity of Parral during the colonial period, the labor conditions and practices of the mines, more demographic information included, and the importance of Paral in Mexican history and histories of colonization and slavery. The page currently mentions the connection to the silver mines; however, it does not go into depth. Although Paral was not always the most productive of the silver mines in Colonial Mexico, the city and its history with silver mining provide excellent insight and critical information into the exploitation of human labor. Also, because of the region’s deeply connected past to slavery, its historical impact reaches countries and people far beyond its geographic borders.


 * Sources:

Option 2

 * Article title No page: The Pepena System
 * Article Evaluation
 * The Pepena System was a critical feature of the silver mines in Mexico during the colonial period. Those who participated in the pepena system as Resendez in the Other Slavery writes, “the most privileged Indians,” who “came to Parral [Mexico] of their own volition to work for wages” (Resendez 112). Resendez attributes 2,000 of 5,500 Indians to have been a part of this system and refers to the fact the pepena system was in mining systems across Mexico. Understanding the pepena system leads readers to better understand the economic and labor situation that occurred within the silver mines during colonial Mexico. This feature of the colonial Spanish economic system is extremely notable, and some historians claim the silver mines were, “a vanguard of the free wage system in colonial Mexico” (Resendez 112). The Pepena system is critical to understanding histories of labor, particularly in terms of how the system was carried out, who participated, and where it occurred. Understanding the pepena system is also critical to understanding the lived experience of Indigenous people and the ways in which differing people and groups interacted with the colonial Spanish labor system. The Pepena system is mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Mexico; however, for the aforementioned reasons, I believe it deserves its own page.::
 * Sources:

Option 3

 * Article title:
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Sources:

Option 4

 * Article title:
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Sources:

Option 5

 * Article title:
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Sources: