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Evaluating an Article

 * 1) The article does a good job of staying on topic and really only has information relevant to the topic.
 * 2) This source makes good use of recent information and has a good understanding of current times.
 * 3) I feel like the article does well in staying neutral by bringing up examples of this idea with most major races.
 * 4) I felt that the idea that passing is real is over represented in the article.
 * 5) Probably half of the article is made up of just sources.
 * 6) Almost all facts within this article are either linked to another wiki article or to another reliable source.
 * 7) The article takes information from sources like CBS news and established writers.
 * 8) On the talk page people are talking about how confusing the idea of "passing" can be and what they can do to make it more easily understandable.
 * 9) I do not believe this article is a part of any Wiki Projects.
 * 1) Almost all facts within this article are either linked to another wiki article or to another reliable source.
 * 2) The article takes information from sources like CBS news and established writers.
 * 3) On the talk page people are talking about how confusing the idea of "passing" can be and what they can do to make it more easily understandable.
 * 4) I do not believe this article is a part of any Wiki Projects.
 * 1) On the talk page people are talking about how confusing the idea of "passing" can be and what they can do to make it more easily understandable.
 * 2) I do not believe this article is a part of any Wiki Projects.
 * 1) I do not believe this article is a part of any Wiki Projects.
 * 1) I do not believe this article is a part of any Wiki Projects.

Donnella, Leah. “'Racial Impostor Syndrome': Here Are Your Stories.” NPR, NPR, 8 June 2017, www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/06/08/462395722/racial-impostor-syndrome-here-are-yo ur-stories.

Annotation: This article deals with the idea that there are people out there attempting to pass for another race for their own selfish motives. It also brings up the many people out there who are unable to find something to identify with and end up going a long time not knowing who they are or who they belong with. While many argue that you should be fine with yourself wherever you go, I believe that at least having a sense of identity will help you be fine with who you are.

Evans, Ivan Thomas. Cultures of Violence: Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South. Manchester University Press, 2009. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost),

Annotation: This book compares the communal and private violence of South Africa and the United States and the implications they have socially in regard to racial violence as dominant class and symbolic power actors, and the role of the state/government in the attempts at healing from the violence. Although this book is almost 10 years old and misses developments in the past 10 years, the book is still helpful in understanding the past. I can use this book to draw correlations between the US and South Africa to try to understand the evolution of racial violence and the role the government has in it.

Kok, Michael, et al. “Overcoming the Divide: An Interpretive Exploration of Young Black South Africans’ Lived Experiences of Upward Mobility in Central South Africa.” Qualitative Sociology Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 56–73. Sociology Source Ultimate (EBSCOhost),

Annotation: This article looks at the sociological aspects of Black South African’s social and economic successes after the abolition of Apartheid. This is a scholarly journal article that was published in 2017 and the authors are all three in the Sociology department at the University of the Free State in South Africa. I could use this article to talk about the continuing effects on upward mobility for Black South Africans after Apartheid in South Africa.