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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Impact of Black Shale Weathering on Stream Water and Sediment Quality in Eastern Kentucky, Brett Hopt

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Fostering Meaningful Learning: Experiences of Linguistically Diverse Trainers in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Professional Development, Anna Howell

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Bottled Water, Daniel Jaffee

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

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The King's Wolf, Epiphany Jesequel

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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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Assessing the Challenges Latin Immigrant Populations Face in Accessing Healthcare and Proposing Solutions to Improve Accessibility, Melina Khiabani

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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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"Change Is All There Is": Exploring Journalistic Coverage of Gentrification in the St. Johns Neighborhood of Portland, OR, Eva Kovolitsky

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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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Industries, Self-Rated Health, and Status Characteristics: An Exploration of Health in Industries at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Disability, Emmanuel Legarreta

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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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The Social and Political Identities of Latine Republicans in the U.S., Gabriella M. Mota

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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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Exploring Impacts of Diversity Ideologies on Allyship (Intergroup Responsiveness), Fiona Nguyen

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Civic Participation and Meaning in Life: Similarities and Differences Across Diverse Youth, Yue Ni, G. John Geldhof, Richard A. Settersten, and Shauna L. Tominey

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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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Death to Comphet: A Chapina Southern Lesbian Story, Doraly Oneida Perez-Valdez

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Culture Clash: New Majority Students at PSU, David Peterson del Mar and Alejandra Vazquez

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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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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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Reproductive Rights at Work: The Role of Organizations in Menstrual Support, Emily Julia Ready

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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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The Adaptive Roles Framework: Trauma Adaptations and Identity Formation, Steffannie Roache

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The Chitlins Effect: Distinguishing Cultural Resilience from Normalized Harm, Steffannie Roache

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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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"Oxygen is Not for the Dead": Critical and Radical Social Work in Palestine, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Stephanie Wahab, and Abeer Musleh

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

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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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Undergraduate Students of Color Raising Children and Persisting in Higher Education, Kimberly Denise Alvarez

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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 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