History continues to be written by Anglos and it's just as apparent in Wikipedia..and add a male dominated voice, and well...that's history.
The same goes for topics about Native American subjects. I say it in my lecture about Indigenous peoples working with Wikipedia - it's just like any other history, it's primarily written by white males, and that has to change (followed with a picture of Kevin Costner). (I'm sure the same goes for other communities/races/ethnicity/skin colors articles, whatever you prefer, as well, these are just two areas I tend to write in..) Malcolm X described history being "bleached," and I couldn't agree more. And here is one of my favorite Onion slaps: http://www.theonion.com/articles/white-history-year-resumes,139/ Having dialogue like this is a great start - I'd love to see it develop into a larger community discussion, like the gender gap publicity did. There is a lot of work to do, but, if we can develop successes with women, I like to think we can develop opportunities with more specific communities - and perhaps both at the same time. -Sarah On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Brandon Harris <bhar...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > > > On 9/19/11 4:26 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > Here is an example of Caucasian bias: the en:WP article on [[hair > > straightening]]. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_straightening > > > > Despite the fact that this is a topic of great practical interest to > > black women, many of whom either have straightened their hair or have > thought about doing it, the > > article makes no mention of afro hair, and the only two images are of > Caucasian women. > > Topical to this, there is a documentary: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hair > > That points out that hair straightening (Relaxer) is a billion > dollar > industry. This is a clear bias; I'm actually flabbergasted by this. > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia <http://www.glamwiki.org> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/
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