ISSI Fellows Working Papers

Parent: Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

eScholarship stats: History by Item for July through October, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-10	2026-09	2026-08	2026-07
2jv079jh	Risky Business: Sex-work and Young Southeast Asian American Women in Oakland	1,117	471	292	189	165
1wh3v1sj	From Industrial Garden to Food Desert: Unearthing the Root Structure of Urban Agriculture in Oakland, California	408	87	92	141	88
5vg5d05d	Waiting for Work: An Ethnography of a Day Labor Agency	363	90	122	106	45
2qw0m970	Urban Oil Afterlives: Reckoning with Risk and Responsibility in the Los Angeles City Oil Field	352	88	93	105	66
6vz4s7jj	Violent Design: People’s Park, Architectural Modernism and Urban Renewal	310	103	71	98	38
8sq3t2q2	Radio, Sound, Time: The Occupation of Alcatraz Through an Indigenous Sound Studies Framework	306	82	105	74	45
9s15b9r2	Redevelopment and the Politics of Place in Bayview-Hunters Point	305	126	61	88	30
6kr3v4pz	Black Moms and “White Motherhood Society”: African-American Middle-Class Mothers’ Perspectives on Work, Family and Identity	302	103	108	61	30
804227k6	Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Anti-Domestic Violence Movement and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973 - 1986	280	117	53	65	45
15w491vk	Intimacy, Manipulation, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries at San Quentin Prison	271	77	56	100	38
0bg1r5nv	Missionary Destinations and Diasporic Destiny: Spatiality of Korean/American Evangelism and the Cell Church	250	45	72	109	24
2tn420vv	“Made for Your Benefit”: Prohibition, Protection, and Refusal on Tohono O’odham, 1912-1933	249	56	48	114	31
8m41z6g0	Musical Crossings: Identity Formations of Second-Generation South Asian American Hip Hop Artists	232	90	60	53	29
3w80j4z1	Municipal Annexation and Metropolitan Colonialism at the Nation's Fringe: San Ysidro, San Diego and the U-S///Mexico Border	230	46	54	67	63
1kb7z2vh	Contested Nationalism: Ethnic Identity and State Power in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963	223	55	51	51	66
6mk5t5nb	Spatial Politics in Metropolitan Miami, 1980-1992: Cuban American Crisis, Community Development and Empowerment	220	60	65	66	29
1ww7s9zh	Staging the Hackathon: Codeworlds and Code Work in México	218	63	38	76	41
6z83w4t7	Hegemony, Ideology & Oppositional Consciousness: Undocumented Youth and the Personal-Political Struggle for Educational Justice	211	109	35	51	16
01s0w5m9	Perceived Social Status and Adolescent Health and Risk Behaviors: A Systematic Review	210	59	72	61	18
2031d03s	Putting Culture Back in Context: A Context Dependent Model of How Cultural Inputs, Toolkits, and Meanings Influence Action	201	51	44	64	42
3421m0cd	Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Evolution of One Bay Area Industrial Suburb	197	51	41	80	25
0518p675	Between Two Worlds: Hmong Youth, Culture, and Socio-Structural Barriers to Integration	195	87	46	42	20
93x39448	The Long Road from Babylon to Brentwood: Crisis and Restructuring in the San Francisco Bay Area	194	71	52	49	22
45p0h3w1	“The Silence Itself is Enough of a Statement”: Unintended Consequences of Silence as an Awareness-Raising Strategy	191	68	60	44	19
0ns787hk	Civic Sideshows: Communities and Publics in East Oakland	189	46	45	76	22
67q8x620	Neighborhood Institutions and Well-being: Youth Perspectives from East Oakland	180	74	37	45	24
92m9r81k	From Combat to College: Student Veterans in Academic 'Contact Zones'	177	48	52	57	20
02h8c8m4	Trapped in Our Origin Stories: Interrogating the Ideologies of ESL Citizenship Classrooms	176	54	33	57	32
58k8g8zm	Migrant Remittances and the Mexican State: An emergent transnational development model?	175	42	68	34	31
3551q7sd	After Foreclosure: The Displacement Crisis and the Social and Spatial Reproduction of Inequality	174	55	57	38	24
6vm4p24n	Envisioning “Loving Care” in Impermanent Healing Spaces: Sacred and Political Organizing Towards Decolonial Health/Care in Oakland, California	168	50	29	65	24
7038t2gc	Race and Class in the News: How the Media Portrays Gentrification	167	58	33	55	21
9bd0515p	Narratives of Interdependence and Independence: The Role of Social Class and Family Relationships in Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College	165	27	98	24	16
5z1751rw	Predicting Suicidal Ideation among Native American High Schoolers in California	162	56	45	39	22
0tp2b2xm	Parenting in Poverty and the Politics of Commitment: Promoting Marriage for Poor Families through Relationship Education	161	72	42	33	14
3md8r7hh	Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women Challenging U.S. Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1911-1931	157	59	41	35	22
0wh9s9fn	Making Public Participation Meaningful: Assessing Twenty-Five Years of Community Strategies for Environmental Justice in Kettleman City, CA	154	42	41	57	14
9zj0694b	Out of the Shadows: Undocumented Latino College Students	149	62	37	35	15
59c1m31p	Municipal Parks: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Conditions and Use in the San Francisco East Bay	148	48	32	39	29
09c06128	Childhood Obesity Among Children of Mexican Descent: A Binational Approach	145	58	28	46	13
15b1h07r	Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship	144	42	36	42	24
8204p4f8	Defining Racial Equity in Chicago’s Segregated Schools: The Complicated Legacy of Desegregation Reform for Urban Education Policy	142	52	41	36	13
8gt8w8fp	Marketing Whiteness: Geographies of Colorblind Liberalism	140	37	44	47	12
3b07b9t0	The Performance of Property: Suburban Homeownership as a Claim to Citizenship for Filipinos in Daly City	137	53	21	41	22
2195c4sk	Asian Youth and Race-Making in an Urban School: The Institution and its Power	133	41	23	62	7
8q265969	Scaling a “Bite-Sized Implementation Strategy”: Promoting Educational Equity and Social Justice through a Farm to School Food Program	133	35	45	44	9
34r2d4hw	Enclosure-Occupations: Contested Productions of Green Space & the Paradoxes within Oakland, California’s Green City	132	39	34	34	25
13z935rd	The Program Officer: Negotiating the Politics of Philanthropy	131	44	49	29	9
5j346415	Social Movements and the Journalistic Field: A Multi-Institutional Approach to Tactical Dominance in the LGBT Movement	130	52	36	36	6
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	50	32	31	16

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