User:MCRU

I am an undergraduate Anthropology major with a strong interest in studies of birth. My current research focuses on facilitating and discouraging factors of access to prenatal care at a local Federally Qualified Health Center. I look forward to contributing to Wikipedia!

Spring 2015 Proposed Work

Hello everyone! I am planning on doing some edits to the “Midwives in the United States” page as a part of an educational assignment for a college class. I am hoping to add something about granny midwives. “Granny midwives” is a term used to reference African American midwives, particularly in the South.

I plan to change the “Qualifications” section of the “Midwives in the United States” article by retitling it “Categories”. Then, I will add a subsection titled “Granny midwife”. Under the subsection “Granny midwife” I intend to add three sub-subsections: “History,” “Training,” and “Practices.” The “History” sub-subsection will likely be the longest because there is information on granny midwives that dates from colonial and slavery times in the United States.

Any recommendations for sources and literature would be greatly appreciated! MCRU (talk) 21:37, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

From fall 2014

Hello, I am a current student at Rice University and I am planning to make some edits to the "Compulsory sterilization" article. I hope to add many more references and evidence and organize the information more clearly. Specifically I would like to edit the “Puerto Rico” section. I would like to add three subsections to the “Puerto Rico” section in order to better organize the information. I propose adding the following subsections in the following order: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations; Sterilization procedures and coercion; and Effects. The “U.S.-Puerto Rico relations” subsection will address the power relationships between Puerto Rico and the United states over time and detail U.S. concern with eugenics and Puerto Rican over population. It will also detail the specific legislation that instituted the policy of sterilization in Puerto Rico. “Sterilization procedures and coercion” will identify the various means of coercion used by government and non-government agencies to perform sterilizations. It will also detail the types and numbers of procedures performed. Finally, the “Effects” subsection will review the various economic, social, and other impacts of the forced sterilizations. I hope to include a link to the human rights article in this section. Presently the section contains information that I will use in the new subsections, such as the information on favoritism shown to employees who had been sterilized. I have found numerous sources that explain the coercive nature of the sterilizations, which I hope to include. I will also aim to connect this article more readily to other Wikipedia articles on relevant content in part to show the intersectionality of this topic. I plan to add to the “see also” list at the bottom of the article links to the “Birth control” article, the “Eugenics in the United States article”, and the “La operacion” article. I plan to imbed in the subsections links to the “Eugenics in the United States” article, the “Christian views on contraception” article and the “Human overpopulation” article. Finally, I hope to add the entire article to the “Human rights” wiki project. This is my first contribution and I hope to get some advice on my organization of the information! What do you think about my current plans for the organization of subsections? Is there a better, or perhaps less linear, way that I could present the information that is available about forced sterilizations in Puerto Rico? Most of the information I have found focuses on the historical US lead campaign of forced sterilization -I have found little information on forced sterilization in present-day Puerto Rico –does anyone have any additional sources/information on sterilization in Puerto Rico today?