#Citationhole of the day: Discussing when the #French settled near #Mobile, #Alabama and when they founded #NewOrleans, Wendte (2020) cited Dawdy (2008) and Eccles (1998). Dawdy had no sources for this info. Eccles cited Surrey (1916) who finally cited de la Harpe (1831) and Margry (1881). These […]
An unusual #citationhole comes up in Butler's (1970) paper on the #Atakapas #Indians, unusual because he provided an alternative origin for the tribe's name that is generally more negatively cited as meaning "man eater". However, he cited Swanton's (1911) book, with a page number and all, which […]
Paragraph from Massey & Denton (1993) where they state that 80% of Black Americans lived in the rural south in 1870.
Such useful info but so unreliable. Massey & Denton (1993) offered very specific statistics here (18), but the only citations come at the end of the first paragraph of the next section (history style). Annoying, but that's fine, it's the style. However, none of those […]
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Ray (2019), on #racial #social #systems, has well over 2000 citations because it's an excellent piece of work. Despite that, Ray mistakenly cited a 2016 article by Bracey rather than his 2016 dissertation to make a point about #Evangelicals and cited Zakrison et al. (2017) to make a point about […]
Just found a small but weird #citationhole. Roth et al. (2023), an #annualreview article on #ethnicity, cited Brubaker et al. (2004) and Cornell & Hartmann (1998) for #cognitive definitions of ethnicity. The former is fine, but the latter only talks about such definitions by citing Schermerhorn […]
Another fun #citationhole today: Susberry (2004) claimed that #antimiscegenation #laws were passed in #Louisiana after the #CivilWar. She cited Dubois & Melançon (2000) for this. However, the latter only talked about a CAMPAIGN to outlaw #miscegenation, thus quoting a news article that they […]
And this #citationhole goes deeper. The laws that Gehman (1994) described were not mentioned at all in the works she cited. Blassingame (1973) and Tregle (1992) didn't talk about any laws. Schweninger (1989) described different laws and cited Tansey (1981) and Sterkx (1972). These two finally […]
