The Racial and Gender Equity collection brings together a wide variety of research generated by the Portland State University community that is centered on the issues of racial justice, gender equity and related topics. Find more with advanced search; example: Black Lives Matter

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Submissions from 2025

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When My Intersecting Identities of Being Racially Oppressed and Privileged Become Blurred: An Autoethnographic Dive Into Unlocking the Polarities of Who I Am, Susan Acosta

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Philosophy in Action: Ni Una Menos and Liberation Theory, Matthew D. Albertson

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Woman-to-woman Marriage in West Africa: a Vanishing Tradition of Power and Agency, Bright Alozie

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Writing Back to Empire: Anticolonial Petitioning and Decolonisation in Postwar British West Africa, 1945–1960, Bright Alozie

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Performance Methodologies in Suicide Prevention Research: Queerness, Colonization, and Co-Performative Witnessing in Indigenous Community, Antonia R. G. Alvarez

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Codifying Capital: Legal Power, Racial Hierarchy, and the Gendered Dynamics of Law, Tavia Andrew

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Conceptualising Coercion in Child/forced Marriage through an Intersectional Lens: Narratives of Survivors and Practitioners in the US, Sundari Anitha and Manjusha Gupte

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"Our Vision Is That Black Mothers and Birthing People, Fathers, and Partners Are Safe, Honored, and Respected Throughout Pregnancy and Parenthood": Black Birth Workers' Agenda for Black Maternal Health in Oregon, Sarah Marguerite Applin

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Teaching From Past Example: Various Interpretations of Livy's Rape of Lucretia, June Baeck

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Room 1: Digital Accessibility and OERs: How, Why, and When, Stewart Baker

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Indigenous Futures: Decolonizing Conservation and Restoring Ecological Sovereignty, Jasmine Beach

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Oregon’s Compulsory Education Act: Americanism, Nativism, and Assimilation, Andrea M. Bell

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Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell

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Mental Health in Prisons: Examining Variations in Disorders Across Custody Levels, Ariel Bysiek

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Displaced: Distinguishing Housing Outcomes from Judicial Outcomes in Oregon’s Eviction Cases, Colleen Carroll, Minji Cho, and Lisa K. Bates

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Their Will is Wealth: American Billionaires, Illiberal Capital, and their Immunity to Federal Law, Conor Kawika Carroll

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Addressing Disparities Among Latine Students in Special Education, Jesabel Jannette Centeno

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A Mixed-Methods Study on Extended Parental Separation Among Mexican and Central American Immigrants: Insights From Legal Violence and the Stress Process, Natalie J. Cholula

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"Where Will My Family Go?" The Financial, Housing, and Health Challenges of Families Facing Eviction, Natalie J. Cholula, Alex Farrington, Lisa K. Bates, Marisa A. Zapata, and Jacen Greene

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The Equity Imperative: Transforming Research Coproduction for Impact: Comment on “Research Coproduction: an Underused Pathway to Impact”, Kathleen P. Conte and Marisa Zapata

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Disability in Exile: The "Union of Russian Invalids" in Interwar Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, Evguenia Davidova

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Gatekeeping as an Online Adjunct Clinical Instructor in Counselor Education, Bernadet DeJonge, Deborah J. Rubel, and Yun Shi

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#Clandestini: How Italy's Center-Right Parliamentary Coalition Frames the Migrant Crisis on Social Media, Jenna Lynn DePasquale

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An Erotics Manifesto: Developing Critical Feminist Theory Through Erotic Fiction, Cairn Des Lions

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An Exploration of Holistic Admissions Protocol in Graduate School: Implications for Access and Equity, Kelly Doherty

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BUDDY TEAM 9: The Legacies of HIV/AIDS Caregiving (New York City, 1990-1993), Jeff Donaldson-Forbes

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One Health Policy Communities’ Perspectives on Zoonoses Risk Factors and Management: A Multiple Qualitative Methods Approach, Lisset M. Dumet, Erin Kenzie, Julia Goodman, Veronika Merino Osorio, Vanessa Cruz Chavez, Ruth Atto, Percy Vilchez Barreto, and Seth O’Neal

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Beyond the Shadow of Large Cities: Small and Mid-Sized Cities as Hidden Epicenters of Eviction, Evicted in Oregon, Alex Farrington, Colleen Carroll, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Safia Goldsmith, and Lisa K. Bates

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"It Had to Stop": Content Analysis of Fox News Library Censorship Discourse, Lex Faller

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Immigrant Families and Stress, Nikita Farhaj, Lily Hinden, and Alex Foster

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Eviction Court in Multnomah County: Improved Legal Outcomes for Tenants Amidst Rising Eviction Filings, Alex Farrington, Lisa K. Bates, Colleen Carroll, Yi Wang, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Minji Cho, Natalie J. Cholula, and Andrew Lindstrom

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Spread, Natalie Ann Flaherty

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The Roots of Ethno-Political Strife in Ceylon: The Dividing Power of British Colonialism, Audrey Francioch

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Who's Afraid of Femininity? An Examination of Hegemonic Masculinity and Envy, Shiloh R. Frost and Emily Shafer

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Why You Always So Political? The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education [Podcast], Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Plural Water Narratives: an Environmental Justice Lens on a Systematic Review of Q-Methodology Water Research, Melissa Haeffner, Alida Cantor, Janet Cowal, Andrea Bryant, Darius Mani Yaw, Kinna Je Palacios, Daniela Serna, Bryce Sprauer, and Abigail Tran-Gruver

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"I Just Kind of Wish People Knew We Existed:" Rethinking Queer Visibility, Identity, and Belonging in Rural America, Alyson C. Hagen

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Welcoming Historically Under-Represented Groups in Higher Education Through Awareness of Standard English Ideology, John Hellermann, Lynn Santelmann, Jennifer Mittelstaedt, Janet Cowal, and Steven L. Thorne

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Race, Reflection and Resistance: An Autoethnographic Journey in Social Studies Curriculum Development, Jesse Nicholas Hendryx-Dobson

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2024 Oregon Statewide Homelessness Estimates, Franklin Holcomb Spurbeck, Jacen Greene, and Marisa Zapata

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Rupert Raj’s Written Acts of Activism and Care Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Mia Jakobsen

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Integrative Approaches to Climate Resilience Planning: Application of a Plan Evaluation Framework, Maulsri Jha

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Islands in Motion: The Transnational Ties Between Japan and Hawaii, 1885-1945, Annalise Jones

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Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations, Surabhi Karambelkar, Alida Cantor, Thien-Kim Bui, Bethani Turley, Maryalice Fischer, and Shannon Ames

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AcademyHealth - 2024 Data Visualization Winners, Chelsea Keating, Emily Boniface, and Mina Colon

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Adolescent Preventive Care Outcomes Before and After COVID-19 Onset: What is the Role of Telehealth?, Sarah Hayden Knipper

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At Home in Horror: Women and Body Horror, Brooklynn Kreps

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History in the Margins: Analysis of How the Language in U.S. History Textbooks Used in Portland Public Schools Marginalizes the History, Contributions, and Voices of People of Color, Ella Christine LaHue Brown

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The Rainbow War: Ballot Measure 9 and the Fight Over Gay Rights in Oregon, Patrick Douglas LaSalle

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"I know who I am": Draw-and-Tell Conversations with Gender-Creative Children, Eline Leemans Lenne

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Head of Roses, Remy Levine

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Mindful Wonderment: Using Focus Groups to Frame Social Justice, Rolla Lewis, Susan Davis Lenski, Swapna Mukhopadhyay, and Chris Taylor Cartwright

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Discourse Analysis of Partner-focus in Intimate Partner Violence, Maureen Theresa Lowell

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A Meta-Analysis of Accent Bias in Employee Interviews: the Effects of Gender and Accent Stereotypes, Interview Modality, and Other Moderating Features, Henri T. Maindidze, Jason G. Randall, Michelle P. Martin‐Raugh, and Katrisha M. Smith

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Prayer and Gunpowder, Muhammad Saqif Maqsud

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Understanding Young Adolescent Identity and Experiences Through Internal Dimensions: A Scoping Review, Dezeré J. Martin, Stacie K. Pettit, Sandra L. Stacki, Kristie W. Smith, and Micki M. Caskey

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Structure vs Agency: The Intersectionality of Race, Mental Health, and Homelessness, Jayley Martin

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I, as in We, CJ Maruyama

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A Crucial Western Foothold: Uyghur-Americans in the Fairfax-D.C. Metro Area, Jake C. McCauley

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Youth Experiences of Participation, Inclusion, and Influence Within a Youth-Serving Organization Implementing Participatory Processes, Rhen M. Miles

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Examining County-Level Implicit Stereotypes and Prejudice as Predictors of Racial and Gender Disparities in Incarceration Across the United States, Emma Elizabeth Lee Money

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Intersectional Realities, Multi-Dimensional Films: Reading Julie Dash's Illusions as an Activist Text, Amelia Morrison

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The Failure of the Annan Plan and Suggestions for Peace in Cyprus, Haley Grace Morrow

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Whipped into Shape: Infrastructure as Punishment for the Unruly Citizen, Eliza Mortimer

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Sunrise at the Salton Sea: Environmental Justice, Land Use Change, and Hydrosocial Dynamics of Solar Energy Transitions in the Imperial Valley, California, Dustin Mulvaney, James J. A. Blair, and Alida Cantor

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Continent Imaginaries Across Time Official Educational Discourse from the Progressive USA to UNESCO, Madhu Narayanan

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Evading a Post-Truth World: Rorty’s Foundationless Philosophy for an Acculturating Education, Madhu Narayanan

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Self-Representation in Manga: The Importance of Gay & Lesbian Visibility in Japanese Society, Rylan Newsom

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Institutions, Indigenous Peoples, and the Structure of Power in Columbia River Basin Salmon Governance, Christopher Michael Page

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Voices to Faces: The Midnight Cowboy’s Picaresque Journey, Dave Patterson

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An Equitable End: Meeting the Needs of Queer Families Within Deathcare, Nyssa Peck

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Geography of Non-Daytime Work and Employer-Centered Transit Accessibility, Julia Mai Plotts

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Shadowed Identities: The (Mis)Representation of Communities of Color in Classic Film Noir, Yolanda Porter

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Safe-Haven Ignorance: The Epistemic Refugee, Purya Rabet

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Manifesto of an Arab Female, Diditta Rizk

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Shanghai's Stateless Immigrants: Anti-Bolshevik Russians in Shanghai from 1917-1949, Anna E. Roberts

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The Role of Cultural Mathematical Caring Relations in Supporting Two Latina Undergraduates’ Rate of Change Development within a Constructivist Teaching Experiment: An Anti-Deficit Investigation Bridging Sensemaking and Cultural Experiences, Christopher Orlando Roman

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What This Work Really Takes: Lessons, Tensions, and Student Perspectives in a Social Justice Math Classroom, Kathryn Elizabeth Roman

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Why Democracy Has Lost the Trust of Modern People in the Modern Era, Erica Rubel

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Experiences of Minority Workers: A Three-Study Dissertation Evaluating Recruitment and Workplace Experiences for Minority Workers, Jennifer Saucedo

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"I'll Just Say It's Been a Racist Process": The Power Dynamics Within and Outside Diversity Requirement Classrooms at a Minority-Serving Institution, Kazusa Seko

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A Comprehensive Literature Review of Gender Differences in Perception and Response to Stress, Zoe M. Shankland

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College Outcomes for Young Adults with and Without Learning Disabilities and ADHD: Formal-Disability-Programming and Informal-Disability-Supports, Dara R. Shifrer, Rachel Springer, Hannah Sean Ellefritz, and Ned Tilbrook

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Access to Healthcare for Rural Transgender Adults in the United States, Devon Smith

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Exploring Health Equity with Culturally Specific Providers of Permanent Supportive Housing, Judith Solomon

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Inciting Action by Analyzing Pachirat, Rhi N. Soto

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Issue Cover Art: Homecoming Collage, Rhi N. Soto

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“Through Science to Justice” Magnus Hirschfeld’s Role in Queer Liberation, Katarina L. Stoll

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A 14-Year Content Analysis of School-Family Partnership Publications in Counseling: Trends, Gaps, and Future Directions, Yi-Wen Su and Dan Li

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A Fifty-Year Assessment of Historical Planning Processes and Green Space Distribution (1975-2025): A Case Study of Portland, OR, USA, Quadri Olatunbosun Taiwo

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Evaluating The Elder Justice Act: Challenges In Funding, Implementation, And Coalition Dynamics, Annabelle Weberg

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Identity, Bodies, and Time: Analysis of Transgender Education Curricula in K Through 12 Grades, Dean Weiler-Zilberman

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The Intersection of Education and Empowerment: How Comprehensive Sex Education Equips Adolescents to Navigate Complex Relational Dynamics, JoLeigh Wood

Submissions from 2024

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Binary Gendered Language: A Qualitative Study of PSU Students, Dakota Abercrombie

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English As the Scholarly Language: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Implications for Academic Reference and Instruction Librarians, Linda Ueki Absher and Michelle R. Desilets

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"The Feminist Coven Did It": Nigerian Women's Feminist Leadership and Coalition Against Police Brutality during the 2020 #EndSARS Protests, Bright Alozie

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Health Equity in Stroke Prophylaxis for New Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department, Mariam Anwar

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Subvert the Dominant Paradigm: Reimagining Academic Library Hiring Processes, Xan Arch and Isaac P. Gilman

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Including Voices and Mitigating Bias: Evaluative Practices for Final Interviews, Xan Arch and José Velazco

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Identity in Question: Middle Eastern Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, Julian F. Balsley