The governor's Environmental Task force presents on the relationship between environmental justice and race. Panel discussion facilitated by Avel Gordley from Portland State University; presenters include Robin...

This is a descriptive study of grassroot organizations in the Black community of Portland, Oregon. The primary objective of this study is to determine whether the Black community of Portland is actively working...

Juvenile correctional boot camps seek to transform youth labeled “at-risk” into productive members of society. While these military-style programs have been in decline since the early 2000s, the Los Angeles...

Using Third-World feminist and postcolonial theory, this research complicates the narrative of culture in education. While multicultural education is well intentioned, it creates caricatures of communities of...

We are deeply concerned about the small representation of faculty of color in the academy; thus, we address the question of how and why doctoral students of color choose a particular career path. This...

Marcus Mundy lectures on the Urban League's report on the state of African Americans in Oregon.

Individuals who are facing death today are doing so in an environment that is significantly different than it was in the past. Medical technology is increasingly able to keep people alive even with multiple...

In this article, we attempt to honor the rich legacy of Derrick Bell by detailing how exploring his specific contributions to critical race theory (CRT) provided lessons for developing and refining critical...

Lois James, Stephen James, and Bryan Vila in their article “The Reverse Racism Effect: Are Cops More Hesitant to Shoot Black Than White Suspects?” from the May 2016 issue of Criminology & Public...

How does a woman's race influence perceptions of her sexual behavior? This study investigated how race and sexual behavior intersect within an ambivalent sexism framework. Benevolent sexism characterizes women...