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Written by Joshua McNeill on 2025-01-28 at 17:58

And another citation hole: Referencing a #discriminatory law aimed at free people of color in #Louisiana, Susberry (2004) cited Gehman (1994) who actually described the law(s) completely differently and cited Schweninger (1989), Blassingame (1973), and Tregle (1992), one of whom may or may not have actually cited the damn law(s) directly.

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Written by Joshua McNeill on 2025-01-29 at 19:30

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 did cite some actual statutes and court cases.

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Written by Joshua McNeill on 2025-01-29 at 19:34

So, to get to the actual primary data, this information had to pass from Tansey/Sterkx to Schweninger to Gehman to Susberry, and the message was already distorted by the time it got to Gehman whose book is, by the way, cited 132 times as of today according to Google Scholar.

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