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 2024

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

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

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

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It's Disco, Baby: Queer Possibilities and Conservative Outrage, Lottie Bromham

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2020 Racial Justice Protests in Portland, OR: An Analysis of Radical Place-making and Police Tactics in a Neighborhood Context, Claire Brumbaugh-Smith

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Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph R. Burns

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Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph Robert Burns

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Fragments of a Dream: Armenia and the Shadow of Genocide, Ada A. Camp

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Learning to Teach about Climate Justice and Social Justice in Science Methods, Mindy J. Chappell

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Fight, Flight, Freeze: How Access to Support Shapes Tenant Responses to Eviction in Multnomah County, Natalie J. Cholula, Lisa Bates, Alex Farrington, Marisa Zapata, Colleen Carroll, Jacen Greene, and Hadley Bates

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Exhibiting the Museum: Interrogating Spaces of Institutional Knowledge Production through Interactive Print Design, Malcolm Church

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What Explains Male and Female Decision Making to Enter Law? Evidence From a Survey of US-Based Undergraduate Students, Abigail Cohen

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Gaza's Healthcare System in Collapse: An Exploratory Analysis of Healthcare Attacks in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) and Israel since October 2023, Vincenzo J. Cornacchione

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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

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Zombies From Cultural Origin to Contemporary Uses, Conor Davenport

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On Fire and Water: The Intersection of Wetlands and Burning Strategies in Managing the Anthropogenic Plant Communities of Yosemite National Park, Douglas Deur and Rochelle Bloom

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Black Transnationalism and Diaspora in Hip Hop: An Analysis of Billy Woods’ “Asylum”, Rayli Dornan

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Exploring Decolonial and Indigenous mental health framework and practice to address complex trauma among Palestinian youth living under violence of settler-colonialism, Vivian L. Duong and Corrin Murphy

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Intersections between Science and Social Justice: A Conversation with Liza Finkel, Liza Finkel and Maika Yeigh

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Creating a New Border Culture in the Midst of the Climate Crisis: Activism and Pedagogy Strategies for Teacher Preparation, Puneet S. Gill

Boxnard: Counterstories as Counterpunches | Boxnard: Contrahistorias como Contragolpes, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Individual and Structural Contributors to Implicit and Explicit Anti-Muslim Bias in the United States, Aeleah M. Granger

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Alternative Shelter Evaluation Report, Jacen Greene, Todd Ferry, Emily Leickly, and Franklin Holcomb Spurbeck

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Wraithstruck: Chapters from the Adorese Forests, Clover Gullans

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"Crush the Monster": Homosexuality and Moral Panic in 1950s Idaho, Ian Hadrick

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Jewish Immigrants in Argentina: The Bund as a Transnational Connection, Naomi Hemstreet

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An Additive Model of Engagement: Considering The Role of Front-End Criminal Justice Agencies in Treatment Provisions [Interim Report: Year Two], Kelsey S. Henderson, Christopher Campbell, and Brian Renauer

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Self-reported Follow-up Care Needs Can be Met in Both Facility and Self-managed Abortion: Evidence from Low- and Middle-income Countries, Laura E. Jacobson MPH

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Supporting Self-managed Abortion Care in “practice not premise”: Provider Perspectives, Roles, and Referral Pathways in India, Laura E. Jacobson MPH, Caila Brander, P. Balasubramanian, Sruthi Chandrasekaran, Blair Darney, Julia Goodman, Ruvani Jayaweera, and Caitlin Gerdts

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Sex Toys in the City: Pleasure, Profit, and Sex-Positive Cultures in Portland, Abigail Jobe

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Afro-Latin Americans Living in Spain and Social Death: Moving from the Empirical to the Ontological, Ethan Johnson, Joy González-Güeto, and Vanessa Cadena

Compelling Care: A Grounded Theory of Transmasculine Self-Defense and Collective Protection at the Clinic., Sid P. Jordan

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The Association Between Acculturation & C-reactive Protein in U.S. Immigrants: A Cross-sectional Study, Jessica Kilinski BS; Rosol Mikail BS; Kelly M. Reavis PhD, MPH; and Deborah Karasek PhD, MPH

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The Rainbow Wave: Rethinking LGBTQ Representation in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Research, Tyler King

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Promoting Student Engagement in Research in an Undergraduate Language-Development Course, Mitchell Kloer, Isabelle Trujillo, Teresa Roberts, and Carolyn Quam

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Inequities in Chronic Stress Exposure at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Identity in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adults, Jordan M. Lancaster and Efrain H. Chavez Martinez

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Knowledge of Medicaid Expansion to Recent and Undocumented Immigrants Among Oregon Mexican-origin Latinos: (Work in Progress), Nancy Ledezma, Grace Parra, Alejandra Nunez, and Dr. Blair Darney

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Investigating the Effects of Inclusive Environments on the Mental Health of Queer Individuals : A Study With the Rose City Rollers, Ashton Lee

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Edward's New Welsh: The Foundations of English Colonialism, 1282-1343, Joshua Lembke

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Native American and First-Nations Canadian and Physical PFAS Accumulations: A Literature Review, Laurel Liebeseller

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American Evangelicalism and the Status of Women: Biblical Interpretation, Politicization, and a Future for Secularism, Ivy MacNeil Blackwood

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Black Movement in White Spaces: How Youth Online Protests Challenge ‘No-Excuses’ Charter Practices, Matthew McCluskey and Madhu Narayanan

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We're Here to Stay: Nonviolence and the Disability Rights Movement, Sky McLeod

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Transgender and Non-binary Health in Oregon Under a Single-Payer Health System, Amy (Mick) L. McVeety (they/she)

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Gender Affirming Surgery and Pain in Adolescents: Teen and Parent Experiences, Corrin Murphy, Eleanor Battison, University of Rhode Island, and Anna Wilson PhD

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Homelessness: A Guide for Public Transportation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board; Transit Cooperative Research Program; Marisa Zapata; John MacArthur; Anna Rockhill; and Rebeca Petean

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Climate Justice Issues, Urban Heat Island Effect, and Trees as the Solution in Portland, Oregon, Cleo Needham

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Mass Capture Fishing in the Marquesas Islands, Reno Nims, Patricia Pillay, and Melinda S. Allen

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Henna Chatbot Capstone Review, Kobe Norcross

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Gangism: An 'Elementary Form of Religious Life', Robert Northman

Health Literacy Among Oregon Mexican-origin Latinos: Work in Progress, Alejandra Nuñez-Barragán, Blair Darney, and Nancy Ledezma

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The Mirror Project: Reflections on the Experiences of African-American Female Adolescents Experiencing Foster Care, Bahia Anise-Cross DeGruy Overton

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Activism and Stress, Ashanti Laine T. Peredo, Taylor Gayton, and Lalaine Sevillano

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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

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The Construction of Character and Authenticity on RuPaul's Drag Race, Carli Pickett

Annual Walk of the Heroines Lecture: "Dreaming Disability Justice in a Time of Genocide, Organizing and Hope", Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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The Wage of Wellness: The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Work Recovery, Emily Julia Ready

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The Health Risks of Deportation: Impacts of Family Separation on Relationships and Wellbeing in Latinx Communities, Shantay Rhea Rocha

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Living on the Outskirts of Things: Women and Nonbinary People of Color with Cognitive Disabilities Describe Their Employment Experiences, Laura Spura Rodriguez

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Voices on Labor: Making the Invisible Visible, Todd N. Rosenstiel, Molly Benitez, Pronoy Rai, and Patricia A. Schechter

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Differences In Ninth Graders’ Attitudes Towards Math Depending On Immigrant-Generation Status, Karla V. Santana Martinez and Dara Shifrer

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Political Movement Through Cultural Identity: Lessons from the Présence Africaine, Ramona Sapru Henderson

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One Ring to Rule Them All: Connecting Johann Herder's Romantic Nationalism & Richard Wagner's "The Ring", Eliana Scheele

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“The Tin Pan-tithesis of melody”: A Socio-Musical History of Eastern European Jews in New York 1880-1920, Jascha Stern

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Authority with Procedural Justice: The Establishment and Enforcement of Expectations of Public Trust, Paris Desiree Eikanger Stoops

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A Marxist Analysis of Women's Labor in the Soviet Union, Shania Sweet

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Evaluating Equitable Success in Literary Spaces: A Portland Book Festival Case Study, Tia-Theo I. Thompson

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Reintegrating Cultural and Natural Landscapes: Indigenous Homelands of the Alsek-Dry Bay Region, Alaska, Thomas F. Thornton, Douglas Deur, and Bert Adams

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Contested Places: A Typology for Responding to Place-based Harms, Amie Thurber, Amy Krings, Mónica Gutiérrrez, Jason Sawyer, and Greer A. Hamilton

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“To Get More Harvest”: Natural Systems, Cultural Values, and Indigenous Resource Management in Northwestern North America, Nancy J. Turner and Douglas Deur

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Immigrant Identity Formation, A Transnational Approach: Italian Americans in New York City, 1880-1930, Amelia J. Vena

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The Embodiment of Exclusionary Displacement Pressure: Intersections of Housing Insecurity and Mental Health in a Hispanic/latinx Immigrant Neighborhood., Marisa Westbrook

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Prison Social Organization: Applying Social Psychology to Explain Racial Grouping in Prison, Siobhan Wynn

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Feminist Political Ecology in the Classroom, Ella J. Yeigh

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A History of The Bracero Program as an Agent of Transnational Modernity in the 20th Century, Lea H. Yonago

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Homecoming or Homeless: An Exploration of the Ethno-National Identities of Japanese-Brazilian Dekasseguis, Malina Yuen

Submissions from 2023

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Marginalized Populations’ Access to Transit: Journeys from Home and Work to Transit, Miriam J. Abelson, Ivis Garcia, Sadika Khan, Amy Lubitow, Nicholas Puczkowskyj, and Marisa A. Zapata

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Fanning the Embers of Discrimination at Work: Does Reward Structure Fuel Incivility?, Sam Allen

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Law and Cultural Attitudes Towards Abortion: Ancient Civilizations to Present, Scarlett O. Anderson

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How Unequal Access to Personal and Professional Networks Impacts Success Among Construction Apprentices, Cameron Elliot Arnold

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Final (Year 2) Report to OHA on SOGI Demographic Standards for Minors, Martin Arrigotti, Nell Carpenter, Kieran Chase, Alysia Cox, Itai Jeffries, and Alexis Dinno

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The Double Dutch Retention Framework: A Grounded Theory Study on Increasing Racial Staff Diversity at Pacific Northwest Community Colleges, Dominique S. Austin

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“An Impediment to Those Who Would Walk the Difficult Way”: How St. Francis of Assisi’s Revolution in Catholic Thought Was Built on the Perceived Inferiority of Femininity, Julian F. Balsley

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Reclaiming Public Space: How Black Portlanders Transformed Irving Park, 1960s-1980s, Ana Bane

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“For the Right to Live”: Radical Activity in Portland’s Parks During the Great Depression, Eliana Bane

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Conducting Oral History: Background and Methods, Katrine Barber

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A Just Futures Framework: Insurgent Roller-Skating in Portland, Oregon, Célia Camile Beauchamp

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“Back to Basics:” Converging Mattering, Dialogue, and Love within Pedagogy, Research, and Community-Engaged Work, Camilla Bell, Martín Alberto Gonzalez, and Terrence Burgess

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Digital Humanities in General Education: Building Bridges Among Student Expertise at an Access University, Kathi Inman Berens

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Using the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4 in the Classroom, Kathi Inman Berens

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Review of Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice, Hali Black

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Preserving Healing: Understanding Historic Preservation Through the Lens of Restorative Justice in Portland, Oregon, Bri Brady

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Myths, Museums, Mothers, and the Power of Letitia Carson, Hailey Brink

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Examining Factors Impacting the Service Needs of Unhoused Women, Holly Brott

Jessie Bullivant, Jessie Bullivant

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Do Frameworks Matter? Testing the Framing Effect on Public Support for Prison Pell Grants, Natalie Miles Burke

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Building the Foundation for a Community Generated National research blueprint for inherited bleeding disorders: research priorities in health services; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and implementation science, Vanessa R. Byams, Judith Baker, Cindy Bailey, Alexis Dinno, and multiple additonal authors

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Cultivating Equity: Harnessing School Garden Education as a Catalyst for Food Justice and Social Change, Maureen Madeleine Callahan

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The Sanitary Lens: A Study of 19th Century Public Health in British Colonial India and Australia, Josephine Cannistra

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Truth or Consequences: Academic Instruction Librarians as Information Literacy and Critical Thinking Activists, Laureen P. Cantwell-Jurkovic and Heather F. Ball