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

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Framing Narratives About Policy: Character Race Impact on Welfare Support, Stereotypes, and NIMBYism, Josephina Quintana-Mori Struck

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Safe-Haven Ignorance: The Epistemic Refugee, Purya Rabet

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More Than Just a Criminal: Talking Back As a Critical Autoethnographic Journey, Anakin Rivera Ramirez

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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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In-Between Spaces: First-Generation College Immigrant Experiences, Silvina Alamo Sousa-Ransford

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

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"I Like the Idea in Theory": Experiencing the Imperial Matrix through Legal Gender Marker Changes and Nonbinary Disidentifications, Wynn Strange

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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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Estimating Historical Age-Sex Distributions of a Tribal Population: A Case Study of the Hopi, 1900 to 1940, David Swanson and Jeff Tayman

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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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A Postcolonial Re-Telling of the Life and Times of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair, Lucille Marie Walker

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Beyond the Genome: The Racialized Exposome, Flourishing, and Stress Biology in African Americans, a Non-Exhaustive Review, Enye Washington

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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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We Who Are Not Cared For: Social Death, the Lie of Educational Equity, and a Radical Replanting Praxis, Chantell Wesley

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A House With No Walls Where Persimmons Grow in the Garden: Photography as a Collaborative Feminist Practice and Using Archives to Reframe the Present, jada wheeler

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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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The Conflict between the United States and Iran and its Effect on Iraq, Sarah Alsalih

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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

Evicted in Oregon: County Eviction Profiles (2022-2023), Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Colleen Carroll, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Jacen Greene, Minji Cho, Andrew Lindstrom, and Marisa Zapata

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It's Going to be Okay: Experiences and Perceptions of People Who Seek Reassurance at Work, Liana Bernard

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

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An Ethnography of Frostbite Among Unsheltered People in Portland: Safety, Governance, and the Manufacture of Vulnerability, Muireall Brown

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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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Looking at the Past to Change the Future: Showcasing Featured Collections, Building Communities, and Co-creating, Sherry Buchanan

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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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Higher Expectations: a Systematic Review of Reporting the Science of Propensity Score Modeling in Criminal Justice Studies, Christopher M. Campbell, Ryan M. Labrecque, and Alicia d. McKay

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Full Count of Eviction Cases Filed in Oregon Available for the First Time, Colleen Carroll, Minji Cho, Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Safia Goldsmith, and Jacen Greene

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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 K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Marisa Zapata, Colleen Carroll, Jacen Greene, and Hadley Bates

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Unjust and Unsafe: The Eviction Experiences of Latine Immigrant and Farmworker Tenants in Oregon, Natalie J. Cholula, Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, and Colleen Carroll

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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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An Exploratory Study of an Executive Team Leading Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), Tara LaShawn Cooper

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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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The Nuanced Relationship Between Mindfulness, Racial Prejudice, and Policy Support, Jared Michael Cutler

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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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Characteristics of Interventions That Address Racism in the United States and Opportunities to Integrate Equity Principles: a Scoping Review, Brooke DiPetrillo, Paris B. Adkins-Jackson, Ruqaiijah Yearby, Crystal Dixon, Terri D. Pigott, Ryan J. Petteway, Ana LaBoy, Aliza Petiwala, and Margaret Leonard

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

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Body/Prose, J.T. Duncan

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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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Wired for Success: A Neurobiological Approach to Improving the Academic Outcomes of Middle School Boys, Allison Emery

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Critical Conversations on Teaching and Learning Decolonial Narratives: A Duoethnography of Firekeeper’s Daughter, Erica England, Shain Wright, and Dion Crommarty

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Targeted, Harassed, and Displaced: The Role of Discrimination in Oregon Evictions, Alex Farrington, Natalie J. Cholula, and Lisa K. Bates

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Sharing Stories of Hope and Transformation in U.S. Higher Education: An eReader by Portland State University Students, Óscar Fernández and David Peterson del Mar

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

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Social Justice in Social Work: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Erica Fonseca

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All That We Are, Bennett Gilbert

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Stalemate at Port Arthur: William James on War, Vulnerability, and Pluralist Personalism, Bennett Gilbert

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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

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An Argument for the Integration of Black Psychology in Undergraduate Psychology Program, Kelsey D. Glass

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

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Conchas, Coloring Books, and Oxnard: Using Critical Race Counterstorytelling as a Framework to Create a Social Justice Coloring Book, 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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Supporting Resource Equity for Oregon’s Home Visiting Workforce: Exploring Racial, Ethnic & Linguistic Differences, Beth L. Green, Nicole M. Lauzus, Yumi Lee, Erin Gaines, and Ron Joseph

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Supporting Well-Being for the Home Visiting Workforce: Organizational Supports for Experiences of Bias & Discrimination, Beth L. Green, Nicole M. Lauzus, Yumi Lee, Ron Joseph, Erin Gaines, and Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services

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Laundry Program Evaluation, Jacen Greene, Sandra Comstock, and Marisa Zapata

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

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2023 Oregon Statewide Homelessness Estimates, Jacen Greene, Franklin Holcomb Spurbeck, and Marisa Zapata

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Wraithstruck: Chapters from the Adorese Forests, Clover Gullans

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Exploring the Social Processes Influencing the Well-Being and Social Integration of Systemically Marginalized Students in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Zeinab Abbas Hachem

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The Presence of Diversity Initiatives Leads to Increased Pro-White Hiring Decisions Among Conservatives, Zeinab A. Hachem and Tessa L. Dover

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

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Promoting Equity in Culturally Diverse Schools: A Literature Review of Third Space Pedagogy, Sarah E. Harrison and Heidi Curtis

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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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Climate and Extreme Weather Event Impacts on Administrators, Direct Care Staff, and Residents in Oregon Assisted Living, Residential Care, and Memory Care Communities, 2024, Dani Himes, Jacklyn Kohon, Madeline Fox, Laura Rodriguez, Sarah Dys, Diana Jacoby, and Paula Carder

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How Can DEI Training Change the Culture of an Organization to Achieve Belonging and Retain Diverse Employees?, Kaisa S. Holt

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Demagoguery and the Depression, David Horowitz

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Racial Attitudes and Perceptions of Government Response During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Public Health Strategies., Man Hung, Jeremy D. Franklin, William A. Smith, Carlos J. Crespo, Evelyn U. Ezikwelu, Jerry Bounsanga, and Martin S. Lipsky

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“What Keeps Me in School”: Oregon BIPOC Learners Voice Support That Makes Higher Education Possible, Roberta Hunte, Miranda Mosier-Puentes, Gita Mehrotra, and Eva Skuratowicz

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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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Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence, Mahesh Karra and Joshua Wilde