ISSI Fellows Working Papers

Parent: Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	Download	View-only	%Dnld
2jv079jh	Risky Business: Sex-work and Young Southeast Asian American Women in Oakland	614	222	392	36.2%
1wh3v1sj	From Industrial Garden to Food Desert: Unearthing the Root Structure of Urban Agriculture in Oakland, California	450	116	334	25.8%
2qw0m970	Urban Oil Afterlives: Reckoning with Risk and Responsibility in the Los Angeles City Oil Field	442	315	127	71.3%
1kb7z2vh	Contested Nationalism: Ethnic Identity and State Power in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963	319	121	198	37.9%
5vg5d05d	Waiting for Work: An Ethnography of a Day Labor Agency	283	134	149	47.3%
02h8c8m4	Trapped in Our Origin Stories: Interrogating the Ideologies of ESL Citizenship Classrooms	273	149	124	54.6%
15w491vk	Intimacy, Manipulation, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries at San Quentin Prison	272	80	192	29.4%
2tn420vv	“Made for Your Benefit”: Prohibition, Protection, and Refusal on Tohono O’odham, 1912-1933	272	100	172	36.8%
9s15b9r2	Redevelopment and the Politics of Place in Bayview-Hunters Point	271	78	193	28.8%
6vz4s7jj	Violent Design: People’s Park, Architectural Modernism and Urban Renewal	244	62	182	25.4%
0bg1r5nv	Missionary Destinations and Diasporic Destiny: Spatiality of Korean/American Evangelism and the Cell Church	240	49	191	20.4%
6mk5t5nb	Spatial Politics in Metropolitan Miami, 1980-1992: Cuban American Crisis, Community Development and Empowerment	238	117	121	49.2%
804227k6	Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Anti-Domestic Violence Movement and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973 - 1986	228	54	174	23.7%
8sq3t2q2	Radio, Sound, Time: The Occupation of Alcatraz Through an Indigenous Sound Studies Framework	223	57	166	25.6%
2031d03s	Putting Culture Back in Context: A Context Dependent Model of How Cultural Inputs, Toolkits, and Meanings Influence Action	217	41	176	18.9%
67q8x620	Neighborhood Institutions and Well-being: Youth Perspectives from East Oakland	216	65	151	30.1%
0wh9s9fn	Making Public Participation Meaningful: Assessing Twenty-Five Years of Community Strategies for Environmental Justice in Kettleman City, CA	215	121	94	56.3%
1ww7s9zh	Staging the Hackathon: Codeworlds and Code Work in México	212	79	133	37.3%
3421m0cd	Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Evolution of One Bay Area Industrial Suburb	207	67	140	32.4%
3w80j4z1	Municipal Annexation and Metropolitan Colonialism at the Nation's Fringe: San Ysidro, San Diego and the U-S///Mexico Border	207	40	167	19.3%
0518p675	Between Two Worlds: Hmong Youth, Culture, and Socio-Structural Barriers to Integration	206	72	134	35.0%
7038t2gc	Race and Class in the News: How the Media Portrays Gentrification	196	69	127	35.2%
8m41z6g0	Musical Crossings: Identity Formations of Second-Generation South Asian American Hip Hop Artists	196	41	155	20.9%
3md8r7hh	Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women Challenging U.S. Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1911-1931	195	62	133	31.8%
0ns787hk	Civic Sideshows: Communities and Publics in East Oakland	194	76	118	39.2%
6vm4p24n	Envisioning “Loving Care” in Impermanent Healing Spaces: Sacred and Political Organizing Towards Decolonial Health/Care in Oakland, California	193	61	132	31.6%
01s0w5m9	Perceived Social Status and Adolescent Health and Risk Behaviors: A Systematic Review	192	36	156	18.8%
59c1m31p	Municipal Parks: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Conditions and Use in the San Francisco East Bay	186	48	138	25.8%
6kr3v4pz	Black Moms and “White Motherhood Society”: African-American Middle-Class Mothers’ Perspectives on Work, Family and Identity	186	72	114	38.7%
3551q7sd	After Foreclosure: The Displacement Crisis and the Social and Spatial Reproduction of Inequality	181	44	137	24.3%
5z1751rw	Predicting Suicidal Ideation among Native American High Schoolers in California	176	58	118	33.0%
9zj0694b	Out of the Shadows: Undocumented Latino College Students	158	70	88	44.3%
15b1h07r	Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship	154	48	106	31.2%
93x39448	The Long Road from Babylon to Brentwood: Crisis and Restructuring in the San Francisco Bay Area	154	54	100	35.1%
66m719kv	The 'Bitch Tape': How Male Batterers Find The Woman in the State	152	67	85	44.1%
6z83w4t7	Hegemony, Ideology & Oppositional Consciousness: Undocumented Youth and the Personal-Political Struggle for Educational Justice	152	41	111	27.0%
7m9127t2	The Power and Promise of Culture in Economic Development: Drawing on Language for Healing, Nation Building, Sovereignty, and Development Practices in the Hoopa Nation	152	41	111	27.0%
8gt8w8fp	Marketing Whiteness: Geographies of Colorblind Liberalism	151	72	79	47.7%
34r2d4hw	Enclosure-Occupations: Contested Productions of Green Space & the Paradoxes within Oakland, California’s Green City	147	95	52	64.6%
45p0h3w1	“The Silence Itself is Enough of a Statement”: Unintended Consequences of Silence as an Awareness-Raising Strategy	145	23	122	15.9%
8204p4f8	Defining Racial Equity in Chicago’s Segregated Schools: The Complicated Legacy of Desegregation Reform for Urban Education Policy	142	41	101	28.9%
15389972	Social Justice Healing Practitioners: <em>Testimonios</em> of Transformative Praxis and Hope	140	65	75	46.4%
92m9r81k	From Combat to College: Student Veterans in Academic 'Contact Zones'	140	71	69	50.7%
28f0m2jj	The Triple Bottom Line and Wastewater Planning in San Francisco: A Tool for Environmental Justice?	138	42	96	30.4%
77b1h378	Constructions of Maltreatment: Child Exposure to Domestic Violence and Its Penalization in California Law	132	51	81	38.6%
5942q92r	Beyond the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Social Death and the Relationship Between School and Incarceration	131	45	86	34.4%
6068z3vn	The Paradox of Colorblind: Private Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Investments and the Social Determinants of Health	130	57	73	43.8%
26p7z7f2	Between ‘Blight’ and a New World: Urban Renewal, Political Mobilization, and the Production of Spatial Scale	129	36	93	27.9%
0g62667k	Hijacked Identities: Silicon Valley Pakistanis and Tactics of Belonging	124	60	64	48.4%
8q265969	Scaling a “Bite-Sized Implementation Strategy”: Promoting Educational Equity and Social Justice through a Farm to School Food Program	123	47	76	38.2%

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