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Article Evaluation for: Historical race concepts

 * I think everything in the article is relevant to the topic as the article is set up to act as a timeline of how the idea of race came to be, dating back from early civilizations.
 * There were some additional information about various historical figures that did research that seemed to distract me from the main topic of race that I felt was unnecessary.
 * I don't believe the information is out of date because it's simply stating how race concepts have evolved throughout history. However, the information stops between the 1930's and 1980's where the information is not organized like the rest of the time periods. There's a major gap in time periods between where the article stops and what has happened since then that I think needs to be added in. There should be more on what happens after the 1980's to understand where we are now with race.
 * I think there should be improvement in the last section because it's unlike the rest where there are just small paragraphs of information that don't seem to be connected or organized like the previous time periods.
 * There doesn't seem to be bias in the article. If anything, the opinions on race are from the people that lived during a certain time period or researchers that had opinions that drove them to do their studies.
 * There are a lot of paragraphs on studies and theories that were blatantly racist. Only the last section mentions the view from critics of these studies that I felt was underrepresented. Without as much information from the critics, it seems everyone was just accepting race as a very real thing when there were definitely people who did not agree.
 * I checked 4 citations and the links worked. The sources coincided with what the author of the article was trying to elaborate about race concepts.
 * A lot of the references came from books and other published articles found on JSTOR and Google Scholar. Other cited information took me to more Wikipedia links. Most of the published articles and book sources seemed to be neutral with the first couple of pages read. I did not find any citations that took me to biased sources, or I did not read far enough to find bias. There was no bias noted on the 4 I read. Some information did seem to need citations because it sounded like the author wrote from his mind. There's no bias there was just incorrect word usage.
 * The Talk page had lots of critics saying there needed to be more citations and that the organization of the page needed to be better back in 2007. From seeing the article in 2018, I think there was much improvement because I didn't seem to find that much of an issue with organization and a little bit of error with citations. The topic has a lot of information that needs to be carefully said and users are making sure that this is true in the article.
 * I couldn't find the rating for the article, but this article was found under a Wiki Project for Discrimination
 * The article was a more elaborate form of what we actually learned in class today that went more in depth with different time periods and the "discoveries" that were made. The way our class discussed race was much more civil than the way people in the Talk page discussed how to fix this article.

Article Selection

 * 1) 1 Minority stress


 * This article has B-class mid-high importance
 * There is no discussion at all in the Talk Page. I'm a little concerned about this because as there's no discussion it seems to me that no one is checking over the work here.
 * No apparent sign of bias in the article
 * Many credible journals were cited that can be found in Gelman and Google Scholars, links cited worked
 * The "Criticism" section gives good indication that
 * It was last edited on September 6th of this year so at least it's relevant on its information.

Outside sources that relate


 * http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135910539700200305
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090952400000103
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcop.20368
 * http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/abstract?site=eds&scope=site&jrnl=0016867X&AN=20998232&h=NuNOapETQYlIRYCeG7tTnfzhmDR6YftUMipzJSs%2fV631q%2fgF94ClXWswkHyvaqlgesbcRB8nMKJY6D%2fu3W%2bmWA%3d%3d&crl=c&resultLocal=ErrCrlNoResults&resultNs=Ehost&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d0016867X%26AN%3d20998232

Research question: How is being part of a racial minority impacting the mental health of said individuals?


 * 1) 2 Albinism in humans


 * Rated with C class quality scale so I'm not sure I want to be using this article.
 * Talk Page had many issues with wording as there were arguments on the biological aspect of albinism.

Outside sources that relate




 * 1) 4 Passing (racial identity)


 * 1) 5 Health status of Asian Americans

Article Addition Drafts for Health status of Asian Americans
Diabetes

With the adaptation of American culture, immigrant populations can be seen to have increased risks of diseases as Western diets are being introduced into their daily food consumptions. However, there is a heightened risk of type 2 diabetes amongst Asian Americans as its presence makes up 21% of the Asian American population, twice as high as non-Hispanic whites. Due to various genetic and environmental factors, Asian Americans are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than other racial and ethnic groups, even though their body mass index (BMI) tends to be lower. Asian Americans have a higher percentage of body fat for their BMIs which in turn elevates the risk of type 2 diabetes when BMI levels are lowered ; they in fact may have a higher percentage of body fat which contributes to a greater risk of developing diabetes and other health concerns that are commonly overseen. Because of their BMIs, which are usually lower than other racial and ethnic groups, there is a common misconception that they are not at much of a risk for developing type 2 diabetes. The World Health Organization, however, has suggested a lower BMI cutoff point in order to properly diagnose obesity for Asian Americans because of such low BMI levels.

Though it is expected that as there is a higher risk of type 2 diabetes within the Asian American population that much research is being done to screen for diabetes efficiently, the rate of not diagnosing type 2 diabetes for Asian Americans is three times as high as non-Hispanic whites. More than one in three people with diabetes are undiagnosed from improper screening, and this is particularly high for Asian Americans and Hispanics. A possible reason for why this may be the case is because Asian Americans are not aware of their elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes and therefore refrain from screenings. Having no access to health insurance or lack of utilization of health care due to language barriers as Asian immigrants may also contribute to the lack of screenings and increased likelihoods of undiagnosed type two diabetes. Research on language barriers showed differences in diagnoses of diabetes for Asian Americans and Hispanics particularly compared to whites in America as clinicians are lacking physician-patient communication. Another possibility is that the existence of the "model minority myth" prevents physicians from recognizing that such an elevated risk exists in Asian Americans, along with other common health issues. Based on these possibilities, Chinese and Korean Americans are also less likely than other Asian American subgroups to take part in self-management practices for their diabetes while Asian Americans as a whole are not given the physician-led management resources to treat diabetes like other racial groups.

Recently, in 2015, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) changed its guidelines to have Asian Americans under the age of forty-five to get recommended screenings for type two diabetes, which launched campaigns like "Screen at 23" to promote screening from a young age. While an effort to get screening for younger Asian Americans has been made, older Asian Americans have increased odds of diabetes or hypertension that still needs to be addressed.