User:Yves Brady/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

 * Article title
 * special period


 * Article Evaluation
 * start class
 * Could certainly use some beefing up.


 * Sources

Cuban currency : the dollar and "special period" fiction

Article Title
Afro-cubans

Article evaluation
The talk page suggests that there is too strong an emphasis on race and not ethnic historical roots present or influential in Cuba's black population

Option 3

 * Article title
 * anti-americanism
 * OR anti-americanism in Cuba


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article has a small paragraph on Cuba's anti-americanism which could definitely use some additional information.


 * Sources
 * Against the Beast by John Nichols
 * Horne, Gerald "Cuba Si, Yanque No." Blows against the empire : U.S. imperialism in crisis
 * Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean by Alan L McPherson

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Racism in Cuba


 * Article Evaluation
 * The talk page seems to think that this article needs a complete overhaul because it has a distinct americentric interpretation of race in Cuba. Someone specifically said that Cuba does not abide by the 1 drop rule which comes off as objective in the article. There's also little reference to racism pre-1959 which leads a reader into thinking Castro created racism in Cuba!
 * I've already made some edits to the wording of the article itself. I think that the term "blacks" is archaic at this point, especially when Afro-Cubans don't characterize themselves the same way that Americans handle racism.


 * Sources
 * Devyn Spence Benson, Antiracism in Cuba; The Unfinished Revolution
 * Our History and Caribbean Revolution
 * Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo : From Plantations to the Slums.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * foreign interventions by Cuba


 * Article Evaluation
 * Start article (s class)
 * There is no entries at all on the talk page which leads me to believe this article hasn't been reviewed in quite a while.
 * I would like to add a paragraph about Cuba's work against South African forces and the reason why Nelson Mandela wanted to personally thank the country and Castro in their role in supporting African independence. This is unclear in the article. The paragraph on Angola just has very poor readability.


 * Sources
 * I will likely use some CIA files.
 * Cuba and Angola: Fighting for Africa’s Freedom and Our Own B Y M ARY -A LICE W ATERS
 * Cuba in the World by Cole Blasier
 * Postcolonialism : An Historical Introduction by Robert J. C. Young