Talk:Barbara Smith

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 August 2020 and 4 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Box1249. Peer reviewers: Asmaley.

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Neutrality?

There are words such as "aggressively" and "revolutionary" in this article that seem to be neither neutral or objective. L.cash.m (talk) 18:15, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

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D.o.B?

Date of birth, please, as standard in wiki pages. Valetude (talk) 14:25, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Proposed Edits

The existing article lacks adequate descriptions of her ideology, works, and close relationships with popular feminists of her time like Audre Lorde. I would also like to better organize the article to make it more readable. I have read a lot of her work and am a big fan! Here are some of my proposed sources: Smith, Barbara. “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism,” in African American Literary Theory: A Reader, ed. Winston Napier (New York and London: New York University Press, 2000). Chay, Deborah G. "Rereading Barbara Smith: Black Feminist Criticism and the Category of Experience." New Literary History 24, no. 3 (1993): 635-52. Accessed September 11, 2020. doi:10.2307/469427. Smith, Barbara. “Some Home Truths on the Contemporary Black Feminist Movement,” The Black Scholar 16 no. 2, 1985. Thompson, Becky. "Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism." Feminist Studies 28, no. 2 (2002): 337-60. Accessed September 11, 2020. doi:10.2307/3178747. Guy Scheftall, Beverly. “Beyond the Margins: Black Women Claiming Feminism,” in Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New York: The New Press, 1995). Philips, Anne. Feminism and Politics (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David Halperin, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, (New York and London: Routledge, 1993). Smith, Barbara. "Black Feminism Divorced From Black Feminist Organizing." The Black Scholar 14, no. 1 (1983): 38-45. Accessed September 11, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41068082. Smith, Barbara. "Fractious, Kicking, Messy, Free: Feminist Writers Confront the Nuclear Abyss." New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 5, no. 4 (1983): 581-92. Accessed September 11, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23016943. David Shneer, Caryn Aviv. American Queer, Now and Then (New York: Routledge, 2006). Box1249 (talk) 03:02, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Comments on Edits

The readability and seamlessness of the article are what impressed me the most. Maybe this is related to the sources used, but your sections almost read as a fully published bio. There may need to be slight edits to increase neutrality and more images of Smith added as the images can add context or life to an article if used properly, and NPOV adds credibility. In total, your contributions most likely increased the rating of the article significantly. The article is easy to understand, accessible to readers, and well written.MCJones20 (talk) 02:13, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Feedback from Review

Greetings! I wanted to offer some feedback I identified after completing a peer-review of this article. As a whole, it does a great job of providing longitudinal insight into the life of Smith and does a wonderful job of highlighting her contributions in the realms of feminism, LGBT+ rights, racial justice, and politics. This article could be potentially improved by providing in-text citations and addressing critics and outside scholars takes on Barbara Smith and her work. Hope this helps! Asmaley (talk) 03:49, 29 October 2020 (UTC)