ISSI Fellows Working Papers
Parent: Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for July through October, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2jv079jh | Risky Business: Sex-work and Young Southeast Asian American Women in Oakland | 1,117 | 140 | 977 | 12.5% |
| 1wh3v1sj | From Industrial Garden to Food Desert: Unearthing the Root Structure of Urban Agriculture in Oakland, California | 408 | 103 | 305 | 25.2% |
| 5vg5d05d | Waiting for Work: An Ethnography of a Day Labor Agency | 363 | 162 | 201 | 44.6% |
| 2qw0m970 | Urban Oil Afterlives: Reckoning with Risk and Responsibility in the Los Angeles City Oil Field | 352 | 253 | 99 | 71.9% |
| 6vz4s7jj | Violent Design: People’s Park, Architectural Modernism and Urban Renewal | 310 | 50 | 260 | 16.1% |
| 8sq3t2q2 | Radio, Sound, Time: The Occupation of Alcatraz Through an Indigenous Sound Studies Framework | 306 | 75 | 231 | 24.5% |
| 9s15b9r2 | Redevelopment and the Politics of Place in Bayview-Hunters Point | 305 | 73 | 232 | 23.9% |
| 6kr3v4pz | Black Moms and “White Motherhood Society”: African-American Middle-Class Mothers’ Perspectives on Work, Family and Identity | 302 | 64 | 238 | 21.2% |
| 804227k6 | Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Anti-Domestic Violence Movement and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973 - 1986 | 280 | 76 | 204 | 27.1% |
| 15w491vk | Intimacy, Manipulation, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries at San Quentin Prison | 271 | 84 | 187 | 31.0% |
| 0bg1r5nv | Missionary Destinations and Diasporic Destiny: Spatiality of Korean/American Evangelism and the Cell Church | 250 | 61 | 189 | 24.4% |
| 2tn420vv | “Made for Your Benefit”: Prohibition, Protection, and Refusal on Tohono O’odham, 1912-1933 | 249 | 83 | 166 | 33.3% |
| 8m41z6g0 | Musical Crossings: Identity Formations of Second-Generation South Asian American Hip Hop Artists | 232 | 39 | 193 | 16.8% |
| 3w80j4z1 | Municipal Annexation and Metropolitan Colonialism at the Nation's Fringe: San Ysidro, San Diego and the U-S///Mexico Border | 230 | 40 | 190 | 17.4% |
| 1kb7z2vh | Contested Nationalism: Ethnic Identity and State Power in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963 | 223 | 92 | 131 | 41.3% |
| 6mk5t5nb | Spatial Politics in Metropolitan Miami, 1980-1992: Cuban American Crisis, Community Development and Empowerment | 220 | 107 | 113 | 48.6% |
| 1ww7s9zh | Staging the Hackathon: Codeworlds and Code Work in México | 218 | 79 | 139 | 36.2% |
| 6z83w4t7 | Hegemony, Ideology & Oppositional Consciousness: Undocumented Youth and the Personal-Political Struggle for Educational Justice | 211 | 56 | 155 | 26.5% |
| 01s0w5m9 | Perceived Social Status and Adolescent Health and Risk Behaviors: A Systematic Review | 210 | 49 | 161 | 23.3% |
| 2031d03s | Putting Culture Back in Context: A Context Dependent Model of How Cultural Inputs, Toolkits, and Meanings Influence Action | 201 | 53 | 148 | 26.4% |
| 3421m0cd | Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Evolution of One Bay Area Industrial Suburb | 197 | 62 | 135 | 31.5% |
| 0518p675 | Between Two Worlds: Hmong Youth, Culture, and Socio-Structural Barriers to Integration | 195 | 45 | 150 | 23.1% |
| 93x39448 | The Long Road from Babylon to Brentwood: Crisis and Restructuring in the San Francisco Bay Area | 194 | 81 | 113 | 41.8% |
| 45p0h3w1 | “The Silence Itself is Enough of a Statement”: Unintended Consequences of Silence as an Awareness-Raising Strategy | 191 | 32 | 159 | 16.8% |
| 0ns787hk | Civic Sideshows: Communities and Publics in East Oakland | 189 | 38 | 151 | 20.1% |
| 67q8x620 | Neighborhood Institutions and Well-being: Youth Perspectives from East Oakland | 180 | 61 | 119 | 33.9% |
| 92m9r81k | From Combat to College: Student Veterans in Academic 'Contact Zones' | 177 | 70 | 107 | 39.5% |
| 02h8c8m4 | Trapped in Our Origin Stories: Interrogating the Ideologies of ESL Citizenship Classrooms | 176 | 97 | 79 | 55.1% |
| 58k8g8zm | Migrant Remittances and the Mexican State: An emergent transnational development model? | 175 | 40 | 135 | 22.9% |
| 3551q7sd | After Foreclosure: The Displacement Crisis and the Social and Spatial Reproduction of Inequality | 174 | 48 | 126 | 27.6% |
| 6vm4p24n | Envisioning “Loving Care” in Impermanent Healing Spaces: Sacred and Political Organizing Towards Decolonial Health/Care in Oakland, California | 168 | 34 | 134 | 20.2% |
| 7038t2gc | Race and Class in the News: How the Media Portrays Gentrification | 167 | 40 | 127 | 24.0% |
| 9bd0515p | Narratives of Interdependence and Independence: The Role of Social Class and Family Relationships in Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College | 165 | 35 | 130 | 21.2% |
| 5z1751rw | Predicting Suicidal Ideation among Native American High Schoolers in California | 162 | 45 | 117 | 27.8% |
| 0tp2b2xm | Parenting in Poverty and the Politics of Commitment: Promoting Marriage for Poor Families through Relationship Education | 161 | 54 | 107 | 33.5% |
| 3md8r7hh | Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women Challenging U.S. Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1911-1931 | 157 | 43 | 114 | 27.4% |
| 0wh9s9fn | Making Public Participation Meaningful: Assessing Twenty-Five Years of Community Strategies for Environmental Justice in Kettleman City, CA | 154 | 76 | 78 | 49.4% |
| 9zj0694b | Out of the Shadows: Undocumented Latino College Students | 149 | 59 | 90 | 39.6% |
| 59c1m31p | Municipal Parks: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Conditions and Use in the San Francisco East Bay | 148 | 24 | 124 | 16.2% |
| 09c06128 | Childhood Obesity Among Children of Mexican Descent: A Binational Approach | 145 | 32 | 113 | 22.1% |
| 15b1h07r | Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship | 144 | 25 | 119 | 17.4% |
| 8204p4f8 | Defining Racial Equity in Chicago’s Segregated Schools: The Complicated Legacy of Desegregation Reform for Urban Education Policy | 142 | 24 | 118 | 16.9% |
| 8gt8w8fp | Marketing Whiteness: Geographies of Colorblind Liberalism | 140 | 44 | 96 | 31.4% |
| 3b07b9t0 | The Performance of Property: Suburban Homeownership as a Claim to Citizenship for Filipinos in Daly City | 137 | 60 | 77 | 43.8% |
| 2195c4sk | Asian Youth and Race-Making in an Urban School: The Institution and its Power | 133 | 35 | 98 | 26.3% |
| 8q265969 | Scaling a “Bite-Sized Implementation Strategy”: Promoting Educational Equity and Social Justice through a Farm to School Food Program | 133 | 34 | 99 | 25.6% |
| 34r2d4hw | Enclosure-Occupations: Contested Productions of Green Space & the Paradoxes within Oakland, California’s Green City | 132 | 72 | 60 | 54.5% |
| 13z935rd | The Program Officer: Negotiating the Politics of Philanthropy | 131 | 29 | 102 | 22.1% |
| 5j346415 | Social Movements and the Journalistic Field: A Multi-Institutional Approach to Tactical Dominance in the LGBT Movement | 130 | 42 | 88 | 32.3% |
| 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 | 129 | 24 | 105 | 18.6% |
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