Talk:Lisa M. Corrigan

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A fact from Lisa M. Corrigan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Lisa M. Corrigan used the prison memoirs of black activists to show how incarceration impacted the black power movement?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:21, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that professor Lisa M. Corrigan used prison memoirs from prominent black activists to write about how incarceration impacted the development of the black power movement?

Source: "Examining the iconic prison autobiographies of H. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur, the author also conducts rhetorical analyses of these extremely popular though understudied accounts of the Black Power movement to introduce the notion of the "Black Power vernacular" as a term for the prison memoirists' rhetorical innovations" - Relevant Books: Prison Power

ALT1: ... that Lisa M. Corrigan had difficulties publishing her black power movement book because white reviewers believed the movement wasn't important to the discourse of the civil rights movement? Source: "The biggest challenge I faced with Prison Power was the resistance from (white) reviewers who were not convinced that the Black Power movement was an important historical intervention into white discourses about citizenship. Reviewers characterized Black Power leaders as “foolish, “self-centered,” “nihilistic” children, thereby performing the kind of white supremacist argumentation that Prison Power exposes and attempts to undermine. My response was always the same: white critics could not understand Black Power as a movement, Black Power activists as interlocutors, or Black Power memoirs as legitimate subjects and objects of rhetorical and political invention because they didn’t see Black people as legible interpreters of white supremacy." - Prison Power: A New Book on the Role of Prisons in Black Liberation Struggles
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Comment: The article was moved from userspace to mainspace with this edit.

Created by Silver seren (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 123 past nominations.

Silver seren^C 22:06, 15 July 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Cool article! Both hooks are interesting, but the ALT contains jargon (discourse), so I prefer the first one. In terms of the article:
- Can you expand the lead by one/two sentences (optional)
- I'm not sure the sentence is correct that she first accepted a professorship and then become an associate professor. The source doesn't say this, and the "rank" under associate professor, i.e. assistant professor, is not typically called a professorship as far as I'm aware.
- The lead says she's a full professor, which corresponds to her uni profile. The body doesn't have this information. Do we know when she was promoted?
- Any news on the third book? I note the cite is 4 years old. I can't find the information "between the black community and other racial groups" in the given source. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - I've expanded the lede, Femke. I changed "professorship" to just "position", as all I know is that she wasn't an associate professor until a little later, not right away. Whether that means assistant professor beforehand or what, I don't know. I don't have any sources I've found for when she became a full professor. As for her third book, there's been no news since, other than sources mentioning it's still upcoming. So I presume she's still working on it. Silverseren^C 17:02, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thanks :). Her CV at [1] partially helps us (she was indeed an assistant prof first). While the sentence seems correct now, it's not found in the cited source. The text-source issue with the third book's topic is also unresolved still. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:14, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      - I'm confused. What's not in the cited source? It says she's an associate professor in the first sentence. As for the third book, the entire source there is about the sentence I wrote. The lecture series the source is about is what the book is on. The subjects are the same. Silver seren^C 17:39, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
        It doesn't say she worked at Arkansas before she became an associate prof in sthat source. Similarly, the lecture series only implies her book is on the same topic exactly and doesn't say much about "other racial groups". —Femke 🐦 (talk) 18:47, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
        I found a source for the initial period when she was an assistant professor and extended another reference for when she was made a full professor after August 2020. I also reworded the third book section to frame that part in relation to the lecture series and extended a prior ref for the alternative title mentioned a year later in 2021 coverage. Is that better? Silver seren^C 19:24, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

. Yes, this resolves the text-source issues. Two other issues, but going beyond DYK criteria:

The childhood and education section now contains elements of career (i.e. beyond either the Masters or PhD). May be good to reorganise a bit.
Forthcoming usually implies a book is finished and a date has been set for publication in the near future. A planned book is probably more accurate. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 06:54, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Informal, biased and poor language

This appears to have all been written by the same person. Bizarre and irrelevant reference to parents in intro. Typos, fumbled language, repeated vocabulary. Amateurish and possibly written by the selfsame subject? Very unimpressive bragging about childhood. 90.218.234.102 (talk) 12:43, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. 103.212.162.132 (talk) 16:41, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]