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

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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¡Viva Puerto Rico! How Puerto Rico's Political and Economic Status Has Affected Its Vulnerability to Natural Hazards, Mystique Quintana

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A Place to Rest My Soul: How a Doctoral Student of Color Group Utilized a Healing-Centered Space to Navigate Higher Education, Jessica I. Ramirez

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

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Corporatizing Violence: Targeted Repression of Indigenous Dissent in Democratic States, Laikaika Layne Rivera

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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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Project Turnkey Evaluation, Anna Rockhill, Sarah Mercurio, and Franklin Holcomb Spurbeck

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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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Taking up Space and Making Demands: Portland State University Students Construct the Free and Autonomous Refaat Alareer Memorial Library, Aaron Roussell and Anonymous

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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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The Jason Washington Memorial Campus Tour Map, Patricia A. Schechter, Ahmed Safa, Gabriel Santana Soto, Ash Machamer, Harrison Huynh, Simon Parker, Yuki Yamada, Genevieve Davis, Samantha Fox, Celeste Hege, Lucas Kopp, Ericka Morris, Kelly Parson, Adam Reed, Timothy Smart, and Kristin Wingo

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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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ACS Data with Oregon REALD Categories [Dataset], Ethan Sharygin and Portland State University. Population Research Center

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State-Sanctioned Slavery: The Political Economy of Prison Labor, Avneet Sidhu

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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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Education and Tolerance of Homosexuality in Diverse Islamic Contexts, Camila Swift

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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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“You Could Have Did Us Better Than This”: Reparative Housing Policies and the Struggle to Right Harms to Black Communities, Amie Thurber, Lisa K. Bates, Susan Halverson, and Keisha Muia

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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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Political Context and State-Level Health Behavior Disparities, Jane S. VanHeuvelen, Yi Wang, and Tom VanHeuvelen

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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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Impacts of Sex Work Criminalization on Sex Workers in Oregon: A Pilot Study, Stephanie Wahab and Katie Shammel

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Eviction in Oregon's Subsidized Affordable Housing, Yi Wang, Lisa K. Bates, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Minji Cho, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, Colleen Carroll, and Devin MacArthur

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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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Synthesis and Computational Studies of α- and δ-Substituted Macrocyclic Europium and Ytterbium Complexes, Delainey Amara Winder

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Oregon State Rank Assessment for Mountain Townsendia (Townsendia montana), Lindsey K. Wise

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

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Urban Japanese, Rural American: How Regionality Shaped Nisei Girlhood in Prewar America, Lauren Reiko Yanase

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Modern Trail of Tears: The Commodification of First Foods and Medicines in Relation to Food Apartheid and Genocide of Indigenous Peoples, Darius Mani Yaw

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Feminist Political Ecology in the Classroom, Ella J. Yeigh

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Five-Step Guide to Writing About African Children: A Satirical Homage to Decolonizing Our Minds and Challenging Stereotypes, Randall Yesmont and Bright Alozie

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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

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Feeling Otherwise: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Queer and Trans Youth of Color Who Create and Embody Fursonas, Hazel Ali Zaman

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

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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Comparison of General Population vs. U.S. Military Veterans Eating Disorder Prevalence, Micah Callahan

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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

Master of Public Health Curricula: Deconstructing Our Tools and Desire for Mastery, Alana Carrasco

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Using Queer of Color Theory to Analyze Latinidad, Maria I. Castro-Mendoza

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Back to Nature: Marie Antionette and the Cottagecore Fantasy, Rose Caughie

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Sartorial Representations of Trans Men in the Post-Frontier West: A Case Study in Gender, Class, and Concepts of Societal Degeneration, Rose Caughie

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(Un)weighted Assumptions: Anti-Fatness & Health, Kieran Chase, Nell Carpenter, and Madysen Schreiber

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Local Voices: Counterstorytelling and Retention of Faculty of Color in Oregon's Community College System, Kristin Christophersen

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Menstruation Products and Perceptions: Breaking Through the Crimson Ceiling, Ava Colleran

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Economic Analysis of Population-Based Next Generation Sequencing for Breast Cancer, Sapphire Curelaru

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National Emissaries for Preventive Healthcare. Visiting Nurses in Interwar Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, Evguenia Davidova

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Improving Peer-to-Peer Learning for Students with Extensive Support Needs in Inclusive Classrooms, Zachary Michael Deets

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The House Full of Otters: Recalling Human–Sea Otter Relationships on an Indigenous Oregon Coast, Douglas Deur, Peter Hatch, and Hannah Wellman

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Who Puts the "Support" in Supportive Housing? The Impact of Housing Staff on Resident's Well-Being, and the Potential Moderating Role of Self-Determination, Kenna Estell Dickard

Mental Health Inequity Found in Asian American College Students, Anne Dungalen

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Impact of Industrial Disasters on the Mental Health of Vietnamese Americans on the Gulf Coast, Vivian L. Duong

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Trans Futures in the Present Moment, Willow Grace Eckmayer

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Nationalist and Non-nationalist Christianity in the United States, Aaron Epperson

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Contemporary Library Censorship Tactics: Reviewing the Literature, Lex Faller

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An Equity Framework to Engage Community College Preservice Teachers in Black Liberatory Practices, Denise Farrelly, Joanna Maulbeck, and Laura Scheiber

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Discrimination and Perceived Cultural Mismatch Increase Status-Based Identity Uncertainty, Sierra H. Feasel, Tessa L. Dover, Payton Small, and Brenda Major

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Latinx Students Higher Educational Trajectory Post COVID, Jonathan Felix-Martinez

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The Past, Present, and Future of the Latino Paradox, Sheila Flores

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Homelessness, Water Access, and Environmental Justice in an Urban Environment, Alicia Gamble

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Use of the MSJCC: A Content Analysis of ACA Journals, Alexandra Gantt-Howrey, Alexander Becnel, Yun Shi, and Jared Lau

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Understanding the Experiences of Latino Medical Students in a Learning Medical Environment, Leslie García

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Rush: Volume One, Section One: Super Tuesday, Ruben Angel Gil-Herrera

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How Latino Anti-Blackness Upholds Racism In The United States: A Counterstory Book Review Of Tanya Katerí Hernández’s Racial Innocence, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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"It Snows Year-Round Here": A Counterstory about Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students’ Experiences with Racism at a Predominantly White University in the Northeast, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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“Let Knowledge Serve the City” *Restrictions Apply, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Review of the book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, by T. K. Hernández, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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“Universities ain’t what they seem like on TV” A Critical Race Counterstory as a Literature Review about Students of Color in Higher Education, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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“Why You Always So Political?”: A Counterstory About Educational-Environmental Racism at a Predominantly White University, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Why you always so political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Participatory Mapping of Tree Equity, Preferences, and Environmental Justice in Portland, OR, Katharine Vezin Gregory

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Teaching Internationally, Learning Collaboratively: Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy and Metaliteracy (IPILM), Joachim Griesbaum, Stefan Dreisiebner, Thomas P. Mackey, Trudi E. Jacobson, Tessy Thadathil, Subarna Bhattacharya, and Emina Adilović

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Gender Violence Or Tradition?: Media Coverage Of Child/Forced Marriage In US Newspapers, Manjusha Gupte and Sundari Anitha

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Exploring the Impact of Interpersonal Trust on Health Outcomes in Rapidly Gentrifying Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, Julie T. Ha

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Exploring the Role of Information Literacy Instruction in Student Co-Creation of Community-Based Research Products, Robyn Hall

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Re-imagining Mandatory Reporting: Professionalization's Complicity, Sam Harrell and Stephanie Wahab

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Shame and Silencing of Amejo in Okinawa: Examining Gendered and Militarized Violence, Katie Hashimoto