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Week 2: Article Choice: Mexican-American Women's National Association

I chose to write an article for the Mexican-American Women's National Association, known as MANA, a Latina advocacy and empowerment organization. I plan on using references to MANA in other Wikipedia articles, primary sources (including MANA's official website), other encyclopedias, and the sources from the aforementioned articles to create MANA's Wikipedia article.

Week 3: Article Evaluations & Edits

Article Evaluation: Mercy Otis Warren

Article relevance/distractions

• Lead paragraph (and rest of article) contains a lot of short, simple sentences and doesn't flow
  • Ie. "In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men. Few men and fewer women had the education or training to write about these subjects. Warren was an exception." in the LEAD

• High amount of quotations interspersed that appear in almost every paragraph
• A few of them do emphasize or prove a point, but many of them are distracting and don't fit into the article; additionally, Wikipedia recommends not including quotations

Opinions in article

• Paragraph for The Adulateur is an analysis of the play, draws conclusions (also has no citations)
• End of section on revolutionary writings has clear opinion
  • "Warren was one of the most convincing Patriots in the Revolution and her works inspired others to become Patriots."
• Summary paragraph is extremely biased
  • Reads like the summary of an essay
  • "Warren proved her ability to resonate to her colonial audience, men and women alike, despite the limited opportunity for women in her time. Furthermore, she proved courageous in being willing to put forth work calling out the authoritative power while raising a family, yet she was humble and practical in how she presented the commentary through quieter presentations. Her success was never above her personal dignity. She never took any political affiliation post-Revolution or a career having anything to do with politics. She said to her son, “The thorns, the thistles, and the briers, in the field of politics seldom permit the soil to produce anything… but ruin to the adventurer,” yet the public would not let her retire from commentating on the political conflicts of her later days. She concentrated her writing on strict political matters wrote many more short dramas, poems, and essays throughout wartime and post-Revolution with a commentating and critical voice"

Citations

• Some of the quotes the author claims are from Mercy's letters have no citations whatsoever
• Paragraph for The Adulateur seems to be analyzing & drawing conclusions about the play; has no citations

Citation 10: "Mercy Otis Warren, conscience of the American Revolution." Introduction to the work of Mercy Otis Warren. Retrieved February 18, 2008.

• Upon further examination of this source and the website hosting it, this is not from "Mercy Otis Warren, conscience of the American Revolution"
• This citation links to a general introduction on Warren by a Fairfield Philosophy professor, King Dykeman, who claims to have given this general introduction at a conference at the University of Santa Cruz at some point before this submission in 2002. The website hosting it is not an academic journal or reliable source- it is a website for Richard Seltzer, a self-proclaimed publisher and author.
• Multiple uses of this "source" throughout the Wikipedia article
  • One of these is actually a biased claim that the article doesn't even prove (first PP in Revolutionary Writings and Politics)

Talk Page

• Not many comments; none since 2015
• One comment compares this article to book version of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"

Graded as C-Class, interest to:

• WikiProject Biography/ Arts and Entertainment
• WikiProject United States/ Cape Cod and the Islands
• WikiProject Theatre
• WikiProject Women's History
• WikiProject Women writers

Copyedit an Article: Rana Husseini

Original:

Rana Husseini is an award-winning journalist and human rights activist who, from her home base in Jordan, has been instrumental in bringing the issue of honour crimes against women to public attention and for securing changes to the law in Jordan to bring stronger penalties for crimes of these types.

She has been honoured on the international stage with a number of significant awards including: The 1995 MEDNEWS prize award for best article "Murder in the name of honour," the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1998, the Human Rights Watch Award in 2000 for being part of the National Jordanian Committee to Eliminate Crimes of Honour and the Ida B. Wells award in 2003 for Bravery in Journalism.

She is a senior reporter at The Jordan Times and an advisor to the U.S. government funded human rights organisation Freedom House.

In 2009 a book by her was published (Oneworld Publications) titled "Murder in the Name of Honour", about honor killings.

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My Edits:

Rana Husseini is an award-winning Jordanian journalist and human rights activist who exposed honour crimes in Jordan and campaigned for stronger legal penalties against perpetrators. She became a published author in 2009 with her book, Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against An Unbelievable Crime (Oneworld Publications).

Husseini has been an active journalist and activist since 1993, when she began working for The Jordan Times. Her work caused the 1998 formation of the National Jordanian Committee to Eliminate so-called Crimes of Honor and influenced the 2007 fatwa in Jordan stating that honor killings are against religious law. She has served as a regional coordinator for the United Nation's Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and as an advisor to the U.S. government-funded human rights organization Freedom House.

She has received multiple local and international awards including: a medal from Jordan's King Abdullah II in 2007, the Ida B. Wells award for Bravery in Journalism in 2003, the Human Rights Watch Award in 2000, the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1998, and the MEDNEWS prize award for best article in 1995. She is also featured in Kerry Kennedy's book Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World.

She is currently a senior reporter at The Jordan Times.

Week 4: MANA Article Bibliography

"About." MANA: A National Latina Organization. https://www.hermana.org/about/

"Mexican American Women's National Association." Dictionary of American History. Encyclopedia.com. http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/mexican-american-womens-national-association

"National Organizations and Programs Supporting Women's and Latina Leadership." Latinas Represent. https://latinasrepresent.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/LatinasRepresent_National_ORGS_Factsheet.pdf

Lugo-Lugo, Carmen R., Leonard, David J. Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. Sharpe Reference, 2010

Marquez, Benjamin. Constructing identities in Mexican-American political organizations: choosing issues, taking sides. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.

Ruiz, Vicki L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Valenzuela-Crocker, Elvira. MANA, one dream, many voices: a history of the Mexican American Women's National Association. Washington, DC: Mexican American Women's National Association, 1991.

Wikipedia Contributors. "1977 Women's National Conference: Minority-Latino Women." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1977_Women%27s_National_Conference:_Minority-Latino-Women&oldid=796623333]

Week 5: Evaluating Sources & Adding to an Article

Evaluating Sources: Mercy Otis Warren

Within the past few weeks, the Wikipedia article for Mercy Otis Warren has been edited and improved. Looking back at it, the sources are mainly bibliographies with some historical books on women in the Revolution or the American Revolution. With the exception of one, the article's sources are unbiased, academic, and trustworthy.

The one outlier is the same citation I referenced when evaluating the article, "Mercy Otis Warren, conscience of the American Revolution" from Introduction to the work of Mercy Otis Warren. It is still a random man's site, where he posted an introduction by a Fairfield Philosophy professor, King Dykeman, who claims to have given this general introduction at a conference at the University of Santa Cruz at some point before this submission in 2002. It is not an academic, published, well-known, or trustworthy source and doesn't fit the Wikipedia requirements.

Adding to an Article: Oveta Culp Hobby

Copied & Pasted from viewing history:

During [[World War II]] she headed the War Department's Women's Interest Section for a short time and then became the Director of the [[Women's Army Corps|Women's Army Auxiliary Corps]] (later the [[Women's Army Corps]]), which was created to fill gaps left by a shortage of men. The members of the WAC were the first women other than nurses to wear U.S. Army uniforms and to receive military benefits through the GI Bill. Hobby devoted herself to integrating the WAAC within the military, despite considering women's military involvement a temporary necessity, and worked to protect and strengthen the WAC and its image. As Director, she raised admission standards and created a Code of Conduct specific to the WAC to create a tightly regulated, high quality organization that portrayed women's corps in a good light. These standards, along with actions to guard the morals and image of members, developed from Hobby's prior experience with publicity and knowledge of the importance of media representation.<ref name=":0">{{cite .....

In 1931, she married former [[Governor of Texas]] [[William P. Hobby]], editor and future owner of the ''[[Houston Post]]''[[Houston Post|,]] and took a position on the editorial staff at the ''Post''.<ref name=":0" /> They had two children together. In ensuing years she became the newspaper's executive vice president, then its president, ultimately becoming its publisher and co-owner with her husband.

MANA Outline

I. Introduction (Lead)

• Name (Now, old, & that MANA is short for hermana (Lugo-Lugo)), year founded, home base (and never left), nationwide now
  • One of the oldest continuously active M-A orgs (Marquez, 91)
  • Largest Latina organization (Lugo-Lugo, Encyclopedia.com)
• Intersectionality/uniqueness from Chicano & feminist movements
  • Gender, race & class issues as interconnected rather than separate (Márquez, 95-96), therefore they didn't align with Chicano or white feminist movements
• Mission
  • Mission statement: “To empower Latinas through leadership development, community service, and advocacy” (mananational, about)
  • National goals (mananational, About)
    • Strengthen Latinas as Community Leaders; Create vital hispanic communities; Advance public policy for an equal and just society; Grow and sustain a healthy organization
  • Overview around activism & issues

II. History

• Founding
  • Founded by: Gloria Hernandez, Bettie Baca, Sharleen Maldonado, and Blandina Cardenas (Márquez, 91)
  • Original name/focus
  • Guiding principles (Venezuela-Crocker, 3-4)
• Early advocacy for Chicana representation and inclusion
• First national conference (Venezuela-Crocker, 5)
  • Use of conferences from then on for advocacy & reaching people
• Becoming national in 1978/9 (Venezuela-Crocker, 8)
• Activism
  • Political equality
    • Equal Rights Amendment & renewal of Voting Rights Act (Venezuela-Crocker, 9-11)
    • Pay equity (through the ERA)
    • Hispanic inclusion in census, Latina representation in government
    • Voter registration
  • Medical issues
    • Access to medical care & insurance
    • Reproductive rights- pro-choice, cervical cancer screenings, anti-sterilization, teen pregnancy
    • AIDS (80s)
  • Social issues
    • Leadership development and support
    • Programs for survivors of domestic violence
    • Discrimination in housing, educational opportunities, etc
    • High % of Hispanic families living in poverty
    • Education
  • Economic equity
    • Employment discrimination
    • Pay equity
    • Worker's rights
    • Education again (because they're linked)
• Collaborations

15th anniversary and MANA's name change

• Discussions about broadening name in 1989 (Marquez, 101-102)
  • Controversy
• Official name change in 1994

III. Current activism

• Promotion of social achievements and leadership development (Lugo-Lugo)
• Addresses issues related to education, health, economic equity, Latina inclusion, and immigration reform (Lugo-Lugo & mananational, History 15)
• Types of advocacy (mananational, Advocacy)
  • Letters to Congress/Federal/State agencies
  • Amici to Supreme Court Briefs- Amicus curiae
  • Collaborative advocacy
    • Who are they allied with currently?
  • Social media
  • Meetings with Congress, Federal/State agencies (these have been happening since early years)
  • Media articles/interviews/etc
• Las Primeras (began in 1990 and continues today) (Marquez, Venezuela-Crocker)
  • Annual conference during Hispanic Heritage Month honors Hispanic women who were the firsts in their fields of endeavors (Crocker-Venezuela, 23 and Lugo-Lugo)
  • Notable winners include: former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, National Hispanic Council on Aging President Marta Sotomayor, Cuban American Olympic medalist Jennifer Rodriguez, Yvonne M. Shepard, CEO and president of AT&T Puerto Rico, and Tish Hinojosa, a composer and recording artist. (Lugo-Lugo)
• Hermanitas (Marquez 104-105, mananational Hermanitas, Venezuela-Crocker)
• AvonZamos (mananational)

V. MANA Membership

• Membership
  • # of members, some men (Venezuela-Crocker, 61 and mananational)
  • Members range from 11 to 70 (mananational, 18)
  • Includes women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Central American, South American, & Spanish descent (Lugo-Lugo)
  • Over 80% have university degrees and about 30% have an advanced degree (mananational, 18)
  • Represent variety of professional fields, including: elected officials, nonprofit sector, government work, CEOs, medicine, law, education, artists, etc (Venezuela-Crocker, 61-66)
  • MANA is nonpartisan- has liberal, conservative, libertarian, etc members (Márquez, 104)
• Current chapters are "Mana de..." (mananational Book, 18)
  • Albuquerque (NM); Chester County (PA); Colorado Springs (CO); Corpus Christi (TX); Hidalgo County (TX); Imperial Valley (CA); Kansas City (MO); Metro Denver (CO); Metro Detroit (MI); (del) Norte (NM); N. County San Diego (CA); North Texas (TX); NYC (NY); Orange County (CA); Portland (OR); San Diego (CA); Sonoma County (CA); Topeka (KS).
• National Board of Directors (mananational Book, 20)
  • Amy Hinojosa (President, National Headquarters)
  • Veronica Padilla (Chair, North Central Region)
  • Eva Bonilla (Vice Chair, South Central Region)
  • Delia Talamantez (Secretary, Western Region)
  • Cindy Hounsell (Treasurer, Eastern Region)
  • Michelle De La Isla (North Central Region)
  • Jennifer Manzanares (South Central Region)
  • Celina Caprio (Western Region)
• Former MANA Presidents (Crocker-Venezuela, 33-59)

1. Evangeline Elizondo, 1975-76
2. Glori López Hernández 1976-77
3. Elisa Sánchez 1977-79
4. Wilma Espinoza 1979-81
5. Raydean Acevedo 1981-83
6. Verónica Collazo 1983-85
7. Gloria Barajas 1985-86
8. Rita Jaramillo 1986-88
9. Irma Maldonado 1988-90
10. Judy Canales 1991-93
11. And on??

DYK Hook

Did you know that MANA is one of the oldest continuously active Latinx-American advocacy organizations in the United States?

You can't submit an article for DYK until it is published and at least 1,500 words, according to the handout with instructions, so I was not able to submit this for a nomination as of now, but here it is!

MANA Draft

Follow the link to my second sandbox, user:doublea-ron/mana, with the article draft, since I'll be creating a new article.