Oregon Explorer Topics | oregonexplorer

Race and Ethnicity

People and Communities

Home

Topics

Race and Ethnicity

Reports & Publications

Please be patient.

Search within New search

Sort By:
Year
Author
Title
Relevance

Emperors in America: Haile Selassie and Hirohito on Tour

The imperial visits to the United States by Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in 1954 and Emperor Hirohito of Japan in 1975, while billed as unofficial by all parties involved, demonstrated the problematic...
The Asian and Pacific Islander Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile

This report builds on the Communities of Color in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile publication in 2010, that provided a comprehensive and comparative study of the inequities facing communities of color,...
Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon

This thesis examines the experiences of fairgoers at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair held in Portland, Oregon from June to October of 1905. Historians have framed...
Health Disparities in Veterans: A Map of the Evidence

Background: Goals for improving the quality of care for all Veterans and eliminating health disparities are outlined in the Veterans Health Administration Blueprint for Excellence, but the degree to which...
The Teaching of 'Book History' in English and Cultural Studies Units

Book history is a field of study concerned with 'the influence of manuscript or printed materials on the development and transmission of culture', typically concentrating on six related topics: 'authorship,...
Advocacy Campaign for Women's Reproductive Health and Access on Social Media

Advocacy organizations increasingly rely on social media (e.g. Twitter hashtags) to foster issue awareness. Social media platforms can be promising communication channels to reach diverse audiences; however, it...
Collaboration Strategies in Non-Traditional CBPR Partnerships: Lessons from an Academic-Community Partnership with Autistic...

Background: Most community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects involve local communities defined by race, ethnicity, geography, or occupation. Autistic self-advocates, a geographically dispersed...
Strategic Planning Equity Lens

Based on a suggestion by Dr. Charlotte Goodluck, the Project Support Team has created an Equity Lens through which we may review both the strategic planning process and its eventual outputs. In order to design...
Gender Bias and the Evaluation of Players: Voice and Gender in Narrated Gameplay Videos

This study evaluates perception differences of male and female narrators in video game tutorials. Video games have long been considered a masculine pursuit, and because of this, women have endured unpleasant...
PRC Gresham Parks Report: Demographic and Parks Access Analyses

The City of Gresham Parks & Recreation Division (GPRD) requested that the Portland State University Population Research Center (PRC) prepare a demographic profile, population forecasts, and parks and natural...