User:TacoTime55/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Angry black woman

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it directly relates to the discussion held in class surrouding the racial tropes of African American women that are potrayed in our media. These tropes are detrimental to the evolution of black women, and potray a racist and harmful interpretation of the Black female. My inital impression of this article was that it accuratly discusses the damages that the "angry black women" trope places on Black women.

Evaluate the article
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This article lays a strong foundation at the beggining by clearly addressing the main topic of discussion. The article then goes on to give a brief overview of the steryotype, even addressing why this specific one is being heavily discusssed throughout the article. The article does not stray from the topic, instead it goes on to discuss how the sterytope stemmed from punishment for trying to fall away from the "mammy" or passive interpretation of Black women. This article is bringing attention to not neccessarily an unrepresented population, but a misrepresentated one. The information that is incuded throughout is up to date, asn the page as a whole was last updated on August 25, 2022. The article does clearly label the tropes as harmful, but does not look to pusha certain narritive. the article presents the history of the tropes, and how they have affect Black women throughout history to present day. The work is properly cited, but when looking at some of the links, each cite did not seem reliable. Wikipedia also attached a note that the all information of the page may not be varified, suggesting this page was not thourougly researched. The article is organized into clear and concise sections, and flows well from top to bottom. The article itself does not include images, but links images that relate to the topic, including one that depicts a racists depcition of an "angry black women". There are no behind the scenes discussions happening on the talk page. Overall, the article delievres a powerful message, and does a good job analyzing the different types of tropes, and how they play into how American society views Black women. This article could have been more thourougly reserahced, and provided better sources. I would not label this article as reliable, though it provides great insight on the struggles of Black women repreentation.