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Submissions from 2024
Evicted in Oregon: County Eviction Profiles (2022-2023), Lisa Bates, Alex Farrington, Colleen Carroll, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Jacen Greene, Minji Cho, Andrew Lindstrom, and Marisa Zapata
Full Count of Eviction Cases Filed in Oregon Available for the First Time, Colleen Carroll, Minji Cho, Lisa Bates, Alex Farrington, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Safia Goldsmith, and Jacen Greene
On The Ordinariness Of Murdering The Black Psyque And Flesh: Antiblackness In Educational Policy And Practice In Brazil, Colombia And Ecuador, Éllen Daiane Cintra, Mauri Balanta Jaramillo, and Ethan Johnson
The 2023 SSSP Presidential Address Recycled: the Emergence and Re-Emergence of Social Problems, Shirley A. Jackson
Afro-Latin Americans Living in Spain and Social Death: Moving from the Empirical to the Ontological, Ethan Johnson, Joy González-Güeto, and Vanessa Cadena
Engaging Antiracist and Decolonial Praxis to Advance Equity in Oregon Public Health Surveillance Practices, Ryan J. Petteway, Daniel López-Cevallos, Mira Mohsini, Andres Lopez, Roberta S. Hunte, Tim Holbert, and Kusuma Madamala
“You Could Have Did Us Better Than This”: Reparative Housing Policies and the Struggle to Right Harms to Black Communities, Amie Thurber, Lisa Bates, Susan Halverson, and Keisha Muia
Eviction in Oregon's Subsidized Affordable Housing, Yi Wang, Lisa Bates, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Minji Cho, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, Colleen Carroll, and Devin MacArthur
Submissions from 2023
Colonial History and Documentary Sources: Insights from Southern Nigeria, Bright Alozie
Mejorando La Raza (Improving The Race) Through Mestizaje: The Pedagogy of Anti-Blackness in Ecuador, Ethan Johnson
Unequal Realities and Racialized Geographies: Men of Color Biking in Portland, Amy Lubitow, Ethan Johnson, and Victor V. Pierce Jr.
#BlackatCMO: Challenging Charter Schools Through Youth Instagram Counterstories, Madhu Narayanan and Matthew McCluskey
Submissions from 2022
[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
Mini Series on Sexual & Reproductive Health, Season 3 Episode 1 (Audio File), Roberta Hunte, Kim Heller, Mariotta Gary-Smith, and Ngozi Olemgbe
Black Voices and Perspectives on Portland's Black Lives Matter Protests with Shirley Jackson, Shirley A. Jackson
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
[Book Review] Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe, Bright Alozie
Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?, Bright Alozie
How to Write About Nigeria, Bright Alozie
Tired, but Hopeful, Lisa K. Bates
In Unprecedented Times, Nothing Less Than Universal Rent Relief Will Do, Lisa K. Bates
Cost of Oregon Evictions Report, Lisa Bates, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, and Stefanie Knowlton
Cost of Oregon Evictions Report (Updated), Lisa Bates, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, and Stefanie Knowlton
PSU Proposes Race Studies Mandate, Beverly Corbell and Ethan Johnson
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
Social Health: Healthy Birth Initiative, Episode 49 (Audio File), Autumn Davidson and Roberta Hunte
Roberta Hunte: I Feel Rage (Episode 11), Roberta Hunte and Bobby Bermea
“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
Another World Is Possible: Afro-futurism, Transformative Justice, and Pleasure Activism, Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown
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
Blacks in Oregon, Darrell Millner
Think Out Loud: ‘This is Portland’ Ad Campaign Draws Mixed Reactions, Julie Sabatier, Geoff Norcross, Lisa Bates, Alex Zielinski, and Amy Lewin
Can Preference Policies Advance Racial Justice?, Amie Thurber, Lisa Bates, and Susan Halverson
Evaluating the N/NE Preference Policy, Amie Thurber, Lisa Bates, and Susan Halverson
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
[Book Review] Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict, by Chima J. Korieh, Bright Alozie
How Igbo Women Used Petitions to Influence British Authorities During Colonial Rule, Bright Alozie
Space and Colonial Alterity: Interrogating British Residential Segregation in Nigeria, 1899-1919, Bright Alozie
The Strong Women of Igboland, Bright Alozie
Undressing for Redress: The Significance of Nigerian Women’s Naked Protests, Bright Alozie
Undressing to Redress: The Sexual Politics of Protests in Colonial and Post-Colonial in Southern Nigeria, Bright Alozie
Albina Zone (Presentation), Lisa Bates
Equity Planning When the Rubber Meets the Road: Adopting Inclusionary Housing Policies in Portland, Oregon, Lisa K. Bates
Stability, Equity, and Dignity: Reporting and Reflecting on Oregon Tenant Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Lisa K. Bates
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
Toxic Stress Among Black and African American Oregonians, Roberta Hunte and Margaret J.F. Braun
Healthy Birth Initiatives: The Road Toward Reproductive Justice, Roberta Hunte, Susanne Klawetter, and Sherly Paul
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
We are BRAVE: Expanding Reproductive Justice Discourse through Embodied Rhetoric and Civic Practice, Roberta Hunte and Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly
How Oregon’s Racist History Can Sharpen Our Sense of Justice Right Now, Walidah Imarisha
Octavia E. Butler, Visionary Fiction, and Social Change, Walidah Imarisha
Rememory, Walidah Imarisha
The Truth About Alonzo, Walidah Imarisha
Confronting Hate: Uncovering The Hidden History of Anti-Black Racism in Oregon, Walidah Imarisha, Bob Horenstein, E. D. Mondaine Rev., and Emmett Wheatfall
Black Males and Complexion and Phenotype: A Case Study of Portland, Oregon, Ethan Johnson
Living and Working in a White Homeland: A Challenge to be Heard and Recognized, Ethan Johnson
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
How Long Can Neoliberalism Withstand Climate Crisis?, Julius McGee and Patrick Greiner
On Capitalist Power, Energy Markets and Climate Crisis at the End of Neoliberalism, Julius McGee and Patrick Greiner
Racial Justice is Climate Justice: Racial Capitalism and the Fossil Economy, Julius McGee and Patrick Trent Greiner
Portland's Past, Present, and Possibility, Todd Rosenstiel, Ed Washington, Lisa Bates, and Roberta Hunte
Submissions from 2019
“Female Voices on Ink”: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892–1960, Bright Alozie
Public Morality and Ethno-religious Chauvinism in Nigerian: Why History Matters, Bright Alozie and Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani
PSU Black Studies at Risk, Professor Says: Administration Called out for Toxic Environment, Beverly Corbell and Ethan Johnson
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
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
Blackness and Racial Mixture in Portland, Oregon and Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Ethan Johnson
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
Voices on Climate Change, Brianne Suldovsky, Annie R. Lindgren, Andres Holz, Melissa Haeffner, and Julius Mcgee
Submissions from 2018
Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience, Bright Alozie
Beauty and the Rhetoric of Racial Supremacy in Dusk of Dawn, Derrais Carter
Black Study, Derrais Carter
Black Wax(ing): On Gil Scott-Heron and the Walking Interlude, Derrais Carter
“You Can Show a Person Better Than You Can Tell ‘em”: Black Tradeswomen Mitigate Racial and Gender Microaggressions in Construction, Roberta Hunte
From Mentor to Faculty: Reflections on the Praxis of Care, Roberta Hunte and Joseph Wightman
Am I Grading Consistently and Effectively?: Developing and Using Rubrics, Shirley A. Jackson
This is What Diversity Can Look Like, Shirley A. Jackson
Caged Women Incarceration, Representation, & Media, Shirley A. Jackson and Laurie L. Gordy
Can Reducing Income Inequality Decouple Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions, Julius Alexander McGee and Patrick Greiner
Housing Segregation and Resistance in Portland, Oregon, Carmen P. Thompson
Submissions from 2017
African Youth in the Context of 21st Century Cultural Dislocation: A Peep into Nigeria, Bright Alozie and Chimee Ihediwa Nkemjika
Foreword: Sycorax’s Daughters, Walidah Imarisha
Alarmed by Trump: Professor Sees Parallels to Era of Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley A. Jackson
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
Herencia y memoria Afro en las Américas. Una mirada a la Pedagogía desde los saberes afrodescendientes, Ethan Johnson
La Reproducción de Negritud in Murales y Estatus en Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Ethan Johnson
The Trump Presidency, Ethan Johnson
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