Two Annotated Bibliographies

-How to make an annotated bibliography? Follow the steps:

1.) First, make an abstract for your chosen article (100-150 words). Locate and record citations to books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Cite the book, article, or document using the appropriate style.

2.) Second, write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article (100-150 words) from the following perspective(s) that

(a) evaluate the authority or background of the author,

(b) comment on the intended audience

(c) compare or contrast this work with another you have cited, or

(d) explain how this work illuminates your bibliography topic. (http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm) (Links to an external site.)

The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. An annotation differs from an abstract in that the abstract is a “purely descriptive” summary, whereas the annotation includes evaluations of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the source.

Annotated Bibliography Examples:

Chicago style: https://rkal38.wixsite.com/mysite/post/two-annotated-bibliographies-for-final-project (Links to an external site.)

APA style: https://desireemakaylaart.wixsite.com/mysite/post/annotated-bibliographies-2 (Links to an external site.)

McIntosh, Peggy. White Privilege: Unpacking the Indivisible Knapsack. Working Paper 189. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies".1988

Abstract

Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to women's statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended.

Notations

Male Privilege is understated and needs to be acknowledged more by men themselves. Racism was taught to white people as a disadvantage to others, but never taught that its's because they are living with white privilege. White privilege is ignored and even denied by white people and white cis males who want to believe others aren't actually at a real disadvantage. What can we do to lessen or end it? How do we hold each other accountable for this. The author goes on to writing a list of things she thinks are daily effects of white privilege, ending with saying that white privilege is elusive and needs to be acknowledged more. Systemic changes take a long time to have that domino effect, but what if we all raised our daily consciousness to reconstruct the hierarchy of power? This article would be useful in my final to help illuminate the idea of white privilege and how many people choose not to see it.

Williams-Butler, Abigail, et al. “Intersectionality and Child Welfare Policy: Implications for Black Women, Children, and Families.” Child Welfare, vol. 98, no. 4, July 2020, pp. 75–95.

Abstract

This paper uses intersectionality to understand how race, gender, and class oppression have influenced the passing of key child welfare policies and precipitated the overrepresentation of Black children in the child welfare system who are low-income. Critical discourse analysis is used to analyze relevant legislation. Results indicate that discussions related to welfare eligibility and the redefinition of poverty as neglect precipitated disproportionate representation. Using intersectionality is essential to understanding the interlocking oppressions that women, children, and families of color face within the child welfare system.

Notations

This article talks about the injustices of Black women and children in the welfare system. Beginning with the Social Security Act, language including home suitability, illegitimate child clauses, immoral behavior, and promiscuity were used to exclude Black women who are low-income from receiving child welfare services. All of these terms rely on negative racialized stereotypes often attributed to these women. Intersectionality allows us to clearly see the racialized, gendered oppression this language had on the women, children, and families affected. The only way that Black women, children, and families who were low-income could receive any services or resources was to have an open neglect or abuse case—a strategy that meant that social service agency representatives (e.g., case workers) were now required to be intimately involved in these women’s lives. This, in turn, has resulted in direct, state-level intervention in the lives of Black women and families (Harp & Bunting, 2020). Black women are essentially oppressed by the system we have created in America, by stereotyping and excluding them from the basic needs and human rights of everyone else. This article can help me shed some light on the social injustices that Black women have been dealing with for years, and how that plays a part in how society treats them today.