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Article Evaluation Homi K. Bhabha

Choose an article on Wikipedia related to your course to read and evaluate. As you read, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these):

•Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

Article used included relevant information regard Bhabha's academic and scholarly career, as well as his biggest ideas and critiques. Included in the Wikipedia article is a small (two sentences) about his "personal life"

•Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

Article is neutral. Information is unbiased and presents Bhabha's ideas and critiques as theories and not as arguments. Additionally, included the critiques of his works shows another level of neutrality.

•Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

Greater emphasis on ideas, with a lesser focus on his career, which is important when discussing post colonial studies.

•Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

Example: Link to Translator translated. (interview with cultural theorist Homi Bhabha) by W.J.T. Mitchell worked and provided support of Bhabha's original thoughts.

•Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

Article has an incomplete works cited section, full references missing and were used to cite specific ideas. This is a weakness of the article.

• Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

Conversations on the Talk face are largely focused around adhering to guidelines regarding the biographies of living persons. One (or more) editors were attempting to add controversial, united criticisms (personal opinion and critique).

•How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Homi K. Bhabha.

•How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

This article is not a theoretical conversation about the validity of Bhaha, it is a presentation of cited information about fundamental ideas expressed by the theorist.

Possible Topics

Choose 2-3 potential articles from that list that you can tackle, and post links to the articles and your notes about what you might improve.

First Choice: History of Antigua and Barbuda#European colonisation .281632.E2.80.931981.29

Section for improvement: European colonisation (1632–1981): Additional information, deepening of knowledge and validation through legitimate and trustworthy sources.

or additional section on post-colonial literature on Antigua and Barbuda: Information on resistance movements, literature and local scholars - Jamaica Kincaid "A Small Place

• Using Jamaica Kincaid as example or counter-discursivity/counter discourse in relation to colonial discourse and perpetuated structures
• Connection to Spivak and Subaltern School of Historiography in both her representation of local/native Antiguans and her re-presentation of the Antiguan in an exploitative system of cultural services and tourism.

Possible Bibliography

• Osagie, Iyunolu, and Christine N. Buzinde. "Culture and postcolonial resistance: Antigua in Kincaid’s A Small Place." Annals of Tourism Research 38.1 (2011): 210-230.
• Prakash, Gyan, ed. After colonialism: imperial histories and postcolonial displacements. Princeton University Press, 1994.
• Havinden, Michael, and David Meredith. Colonialism and development: Britain and its tropical colonies, 1850-1960. Psychology Press, 1993.
• Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. New American Library, New York, 1988.

Wikipedia Classifies this article as "C" class. There is room for improvement.

Additional Choice: Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire

Sections for improvement: Aftermath & Effects of the conquest on people of the Empire

Genealogy of Incan and Andean populations, and continued to affects and adaptations to a colonial structure.

Significance of mining during colonial invasion and continuation of mining practices in Andean peoples lives.

Possible Bibliography

• Silverblatt, Irene. "Andean women in the Inca Empire." Feminist Studies 4.3 (1978): 37-61.
• De La Vega, Garcilaso, and Harold V. Livermore. Royal Commentaries of the Incas. Franklin, 1964.
• Dobyns, Henry F. "An outline of Andean epidemic history to 1720." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 37 (1963): 493.
• Juif, Dácil-Tania, and Joerg Baten. "On the human capital of Inca Indios before and after the Spanish Conquest. Was there a “Pre-Colonial Legacy”?." Explorations in Economic History 50.2 (2013): 227-241.

Additional Choice (2): Mining in Bolivia

Additional Information: the role of religion in the lives of miners and how spirituality has become "hybrid" in the face of colonialism.

Focus on the role priests and missionaries played during Incan and Andean conquest in re-structuring life and spirituality.

Possible Bibliography

• Nash, June. "Cultural resistance and class consciousness in Bolivian tin-mining communities." Power and popular protest: Latin American social movements (2001): 182-202.
• Contreras, Manuel E. "The bolivian tin mining industry in the first half of the twentieth century." ISA Research Papers 32 (1993)
• Nash, June. "We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines." New York: Columbia University Press, (1979).