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Submissions from 2023

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Colonial History and Documentary Sources: Insights from Southern Nigeria, Bright Alozie

Evicted in Oregon: County Eviction Profiles (2022-2023), Alex Farrington, Lisa Bates, and Azad Amir-Ghassemi

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Mejorando La Raza (Improving The Race) Through Mestizaje: The Pedagogy of Anti-Blackness in Ecuador, Ethan Johnson

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Unequal Realities and Racialized Geographies: Men of Color Biking in Portland, Amy Lubitow, Ethan Johnson, and Victor V. Pierce Jr.

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#BlackatCMO: Challenging Charter Schools Through Youth Instagram Counterstories, Madhu Narayanan and Matthew McCluskey

Submissions from 2022

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[Book Review] Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire by Sarah J. Zimmerman, Bright Alozie

Magnifying Inequality: How Black Women Found Safety in the Midst of Dual Pandemics, Taylor A. Geyton, Matthew Town, Roberta Hunte, and Nia Johnson

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Mini Series on Sexual & Reproductive Health, Season 3 Episode 1 (Audio File), Roberta Hunte, Kim Heller, Mariotta Gary-Smith, and Ngozi Olemgbe

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Black Voices and Perspectives on Portland's Black Lives Matter Protests with Shirley Jackson, Shirley A. Jackson

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Colonial Urban Centers, Economic Security, Identity Bonding, and the Emergence of Ethnic Associations in Nigeria: 1920 to 1960, Chimee Ihediwa Nkemjika and Bright Alozie

Submissions from 2021

Archaeology of Historic Kormantse and the Colonial Trans-Atlantic Encounter, E. Kofi Agorsah

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[Book Review] Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe, Bright Alozie

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Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?, Bright Alozie

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How to Write About Nigeria, Bright Alozie

Tired, but Hopeful, Lisa K. Bates

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In Unprecedented Times, Nothing Less Than Universal Rent Relief Will Do, Lisa K. Bates

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Cost of Oregon Evictions Report, Lisa Bates, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, and Stefanie Knowlton

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Cost of Oregon Evictions Report (Updated), Lisa Bates, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, and Stefanie Knowlton

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PSU Proposes Race Studies Mandate, Beverly Corbell and Ethan Johnson

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Opportunity in the Crisis: Findings from a Year of Research on Renters in the Pandemic and the Programs Needed to Stabilize Them, Mary K. Cunningham, Lisa Bates, Erika Poethig, Mark Treskon, Emma Foley, Reed Jordan, Elijah de la Campa, Nathaniel Decker, Lauren Lowery, Mercedeh Mortazavi, and Ingrid Gould Ellen

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Social Health: Healthy Birth Initiative, Episode 49 (Audio File), Autumn Davidson and Roberta Hunte

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Roberta Hunte: I Feel Rage (Episode 11), Roberta Hunte and Bobby Bermea

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“Black Nurses in the Home is Working”: Advocacy, Naming, and Processing Racism to Improve Black Maternal and Infant Health, Roberta Hunte, Susanne Klawetter, and Sherly Paul

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Another World Is Possible: Afro-futurism, Transformative Justice, and Pleasure Activism, Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown

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Imagining a More Just Future, Walidah Imarisha, Grace L. Dillon, and Kai Hang Cheang

Understanding the Afro-Ecuadorian Educational Experience: Anti-Blackness, Schooling, and the Nation, Ethan Johnson

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Blacks in Oregon, Darrell Millner

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Think Out Loud: ‘This is Portland’ Ad Campaign Draws Mixed Reactions, Julie Sabatier, Geoff Norcross, Lisa Bates, Alex Zielinski, and Amy Lewin

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Can Preference Policies Advance Racial Justice?, Amie Thurber, Lisa Bates, and Susan Halverson

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Evaluating the N/NE Preference Policy, Amie Thurber, Lisa Bates, and Susan Halverson

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Innovative Praxis: Abolition Planning & Afrofuturism, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Free Bangura, Sherri Franklin, Terry Scott, Roland Wiley, Jazslyn (NYC Artist), and Lisa Bates

Submissions from 2020

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[Book Review] Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict, by Chima J. Korieh, Bright Alozie

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[Book Review] The Women Went Radical: Petition Writing and the Colonial State in Southwestern Nigeria, 1900-1953 by Mutiat Titilope Oladejo, Bright Alozie

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How Igbo Women Used Petitions to Influence British Authorities During Colonial Rule, Bright Alozie

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Space and Colonial Alterity: Interrogating British Residential Segregation in Nigeria, 1899-1919, Bright Alozie

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The Strong Women of Igboland, Bright Alozie

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Undressing for Redress: The Significance of Nigerian Women’s Naked Protests, Bright Alozie

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Undressing to Redress: The Sexual Politics of Protests in Colonial and Post-Colonial in Southern Nigeria, Bright Alozie

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Albina Zone (Presentation), Lisa Bates

Equity Planning When the Rubber Meets the Road: Adopting Inclusionary Housing Policies in Portland, Oregon, Lisa K. Bates

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Stability, Equity, and Dignity: Reporting and Reflecting on Oregon Tenant Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Lisa K. Bates

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Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Memories of Abolition Day, Amber Butts, Ayize Jama-Everett, Calvin Williams, Donte Clark, Lisa Bates, Naudika Williams, Shawn Taylor, Walidah Imarisha, and Amir Kadar

Evolving Narratives: Expanding Imagination and Mobilizing Voices for Change, Amanda Smith Byron, Sally Eck, and Roberta Hunte

A Dialogue on Displacement as Entwined Colonialism, Matt Hern and Lisa K. Bates

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Toxic Stress Among Black and African American Oregonians, Roberta Hunte and Margaret J.F. Braun

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Healthy Birth Initiatives: The Road Toward Reproductive Justice, Roberta Hunte, Susanne Klawetter, and Sherly Paul

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Exploring Experiences of Postsecondary Education for Adult Learners from Communities of Color in Oregon, Roberta Hunte, Gita R. Mehrotra, Miranda Mosier, Eva Skuratowicz, Kylee Sanders, Kevin Cherry, and Anita Gooding

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We are BRAVE: Expanding Reproductive Justice Discourse through Embodied Rhetoric and Civic Practice, Roberta Hunte and Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly

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How Oregon’s Racist History Can Sharpen Our Sense of Justice Right Now, Walidah Imarisha

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Octavia E. Butler, Visionary Fiction, and Social Change, Walidah Imarisha

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Rememory, Walidah Imarisha

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The Truth About Alonzo, Walidah Imarisha

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Confronting Hate: Uncovering The Hidden History of Anti-Black Racism in Oregon, Walidah Imarisha, Bob Horenstein, E. D. Mondaine Rev., and Emmett Wheatfall

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Black Males and Complexion and Phenotype: A Case Study of Portland, Oregon, Ethan Johnson

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Living and Working in a White Homeland: A Challenge to be Heard and Recognized, Ethan Johnson

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Educación, Negritud y Nación: Políticas de Inclusión Educativa para Afrodescendientes en Ecuador, Ethan Johnson and John Antón

Locked into Emissions: How Mass Incarceration Contributes to Climate Change, Julius Alexander McGee, Patrick Greiner, and Carl Eugene Appleton

Gender Inequality, Reproductive Justice, and Decoupling Economic Growth and Emissions: a Panel Analysis of the Moderating Association of Gender Equality on the Relationship between Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions, Julius Alexander McGee, Patrick Trent Greiner, MacKenzie A. Christensen, Christina Ergas, and Matthew Thomas Clement

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How Long Can Neoliberalism Withstand Climate Crisis?, Julius McGee and Patrick Greiner

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On Capitalist Power, Energy Markets and Climate Crisis at the End of Neoliberalism, Julius McGee and Patrick Greiner

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Racial Justice is Climate Justice: Racial Capitalism and the Fossil Economy, Julius McGee and Patrick Trent Greiner

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Portland's Past, Present, and Possibility, Todd Rosenstiel, Ed Washington, Lisa Bates, and Roberta Hunte

Submissions from 2019

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“Female Voices on Ink”: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892–1960, Bright Alozie

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Public Morality and Ethno-religious Chauvinism in Nigerian: Why History Matters, Bright Alozie and Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani

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PSU Black Studies at Risk, Professor Says: Administration Called out for Toxic Environment, Beverly Corbell and Ethan Johnson

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Equity in the Grain System: Corn, Masa and Tortillas in the Pacific Northwest, Pedro Ferbel-Azcarate

The Asymmetry of Economic Growth and the Carbon Intensity of Well-being, Patrick Trent Greiner and Julius Alexander McGee

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From Dissertation to the Stage: Reflections on the use of Theater as Cultural Work for Social Justice, Roberta Hunte

Oregon’s K-12 Ethnic Studies Bill, Shirley A. Jackson

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Blackness and Racial Mixture in Portland, Oregon and Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Ethan Johnson

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Death and Dying as a Black Studies Professor The Toxicity of Racism at Portland State, Ethan Johnson

Renewable Energy Injustice: The Socio-environmental Implications of Renewable Energy Consumption, Julius Alexander McGee and Patrick Trent Greiner

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Voices on Climate Change, Brianne Suldovsky, Annie R. Lindgren, Andres Holz, Melissa Haeffner, and Julius Mcgee

Submissions from 2018

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Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience, Bright Alozie

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Beauty and the Rhetoric of Racial Supremacy in Dusk of Dawn, Derrais Carter

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Black Study, Derrais Carter

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Black Wax(ing): On Gil Scott-Heron and the Walking Interlude, Derrais Carter

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“You Can Show a Person Better Than You Can Tell ‘em”: Black Tradeswomen Mitigate Racial and Gender Microaggressions in Construction, Roberta Hunte

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From Mentor to Faculty: Reflections on the Praxis of Care, Roberta Hunte and Joseph Wightman

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Am I Grading Consistently and Effectively?: Developing and Using Rubrics, Shirley A. Jackson

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This is What Diversity Can Look Like, Shirley A. Jackson

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Caged Women Incarceration, Representation, & Media, Shirley A. Jackson and Laurie L. Gordy

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Can Reducing Income Inequality Decouple Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions, Julius Alexander McGee and Patrick Greiner

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Housing Segregation and Resistance in Portland, Oregon, Carmen P. Thompson

Submissions from 2017

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African Youth in the Context of 21st Century Cultural Dislocation: A Peep into Nigeria, Bright Alozie and Chimee Ihediwa Nkemjika

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Foreword: Sycorax’s Daughters, Walidah Imarisha

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Alarmed by Trump: Professor Sees Parallels to Era of Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley A. Jackson

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PSU President’s African American, African, and Black Student Success Task Force Report, Shirley A. Jackson, Yves Labissiere, Lisa Bates, Tom Bull, Shanice Clarke, Steven Christian, Tara Cooper, Abel de la Cruz, Noni Causey, Alex Herrrerra, Rene Ingram, Vanelda Hopes, Vandy Kanyako, Marlon DeWayne Marion, Taremeredzwa Mutepfa, Marshawna Williams, Ebony Oldham, and Tiffany Ganir

Book Review of, The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City, Ethan Johnson

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Herencia y memoria Afro en las Américas. Una mirada a la Pedagogía desde los saberes afrodescendientes, Ethan Johnson

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La Reproducción de Negritud in Murales y Estatus en Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Ethan Johnson

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The Trump Presidency, Ethan Johnson

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How do Slums Change the Relationship between Urbanization and the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being?, Julius McGee, Christina Ergas, Patrick Trent Greiner, and Matthew Thomas Clement

Submissions from 2016

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Navigating an Institution That Wasn’t Created By or For Us, Thuan Duong, Roberta Hunte, and Gita R. Mehrotra

Black Women and Race and Gender Tensions in the Trades, Roberta Hunte

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Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, Walidah Imarisha

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Black Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Campaign in Portland, Oregon, Ethan Johnson

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Review of The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture, Julius McGee

Submissions from 2015

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Playing with History: A Black Camera Interview with Kevin Willmott, Derrais Carter

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Black Women and Race and Gender Tensions in the Trades, Roberta Hunte