ISSI Fellows Working Papers

Parent: Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

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

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05
2jv079jh	Risky Business: Sex-work and Young Southeast Asian American Women in Oakland	614	189	165	138	122
1wh3v1sj	From Industrial Garden to Food Desert: Unearthing the Root Structure of Urban Agriculture in Oakland, California	450	141	88	104	117
2qw0m970	Urban Oil Afterlives: Reckoning with Risk and Responsibility in the Los Angeles City Oil Field	442	105	66	127	144
1kb7z2vh	Contested Nationalism: Ethnic Identity and State Power in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963	319	51	66	74	128
5vg5d05d	Waiting for Work: An Ethnography of a Day Labor Agency	283	106	45	58	74
02h8c8m4	Trapped in Our Origin Stories: Interrogating the Ideologies of ESL Citizenship Classrooms	273	57	32	75	109
15w491vk	Intimacy, Manipulation, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries at San Quentin Prison	272	100	38	43	91
2tn420vv	“Made for Your Benefit”: Prohibition, Protection, and Refusal on Tohono O’odham, 1912-1933	272	114	31	54	73
9s15b9r2	Redevelopment and the Politics of Place in Bayview-Hunters Point	271	88	30	83	70
6vz4s7jj	Violent Design: People’s Park, Architectural Modernism and Urban Renewal	244	98	38	53	55
0bg1r5nv	Missionary Destinations and Diasporic Destiny: Spatiality of Korean/American Evangelism and the Cell Church	240	109	24	34	73
6mk5t5nb	Spatial Politics in Metropolitan Miami, 1980-1992: Cuban American Crisis, Community Development and Empowerment	238	66	29	44	99
804227k6	Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Anti-Domestic Violence Movement and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973 - 1986	228	65	45	39	79
8sq3t2q2	Radio, Sound, Time: The Occupation of Alcatraz Through an Indigenous Sound Studies Framework	223	74	45	35	69
2031d03s	Putting Culture Back in Context: A Context Dependent Model of How Cultural Inputs, Toolkits, and Meanings Influence Action	217	64	42	51	60
67q8x620	Neighborhood Institutions and Well-being: Youth Perspectives from East Oakland	216	45	24	45	102
0wh9s9fn	Making Public Participation Meaningful: Assessing Twenty-Five Years of Community Strategies for Environmental Justice in Kettleman City, CA	215	57	14	54	90
1ww7s9zh	Staging the Hackathon: Codeworlds and Code Work in México	212	76	41	37	58
3421m0cd	Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Evolution of One Bay Area Industrial Suburb	207	80	25	36	66
3w80j4z1	Municipal Annexation and Metropolitan Colonialism at the Nation's Fringe: San Ysidro, San Diego and the U-S///Mexico Border	207	67	63	31	46
0518p675	Between Two Worlds: Hmong Youth, Culture, and Socio-Structural Barriers to Integration	206	42	20	35	109
7038t2gc	Race and Class in the News: How the Media Portrays Gentrification	196	55	21	55	65
8m41z6g0	Musical Crossings: Identity Formations of Second-Generation South Asian American Hip Hop Artists	196	53	29	57	57
3md8r7hh	Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women Challenging U.S. Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1911-1931	195	35	22	51	87
0ns787hk	Civic Sideshows: Communities and Publics in East Oakland	194	76	22	26	70
6vm4p24n	Envisioning “Loving Care” in Impermanent Healing Spaces: Sacred and Political Organizing Towards Decolonial Health/Care in Oakland, California	193	65	24	44	60
01s0w5m9	Perceived Social Status and Adolescent Health and Risk Behaviors: A Systematic Review	192	61	18	45	68
59c1m31p	Municipal Parks: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Conditions and Use in the San Francisco East Bay	186	39	29	38	80
6kr3v4pz	Black Moms and “White Motherhood Society”: African-American Middle-Class Mothers’ Perspectives on Work, Family and Identity	186	61	30	36	59
3551q7sd	After Foreclosure: The Displacement Crisis and the Social and Spatial Reproduction of Inequality	181	38	24	47	72
5z1751rw	Predicting Suicidal Ideation among Native American High Schoolers in California	176	39	22	48	67
9zj0694b	Out of the Shadows: Undocumented Latino College Students	158	35	15	33	75
15b1h07r	Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship	154	42	24	33	55
93x39448	The Long Road from Babylon to Brentwood: Crisis and Restructuring in the San Francisco Bay Area	154	49	22	33	50
66m719kv	The 'Bitch Tape': How Male Batterers Find The Woman in the State	152	39	14	35	64
6z83w4t7	Hegemony, Ideology & Oppositional Consciousness: Undocumented Youth and the Personal-Political Struggle for Educational Justice	152	51	16	43	42
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	31	16	32	73
8gt8w8fp	Marketing Whiteness: Geographies of Colorblind Liberalism	151	47	12	33	59
34r2d4hw	Enclosure-Occupations: Contested Productions of Green Space & the Paradoxes within Oakland, California’s Green City	147	34	25	36	52
45p0h3w1	“The Silence Itself is Enough of a Statement”: Unintended Consequences of Silence as an Awareness-Raising Strategy	145	44	19	36	46
8204p4f8	Defining Racial Equity in Chicago’s Segregated Schools: The Complicated Legacy of Desegregation Reform for Urban Education Policy	142	36	13	27	66
15389972	Social Justice Healing Practitioners: <em>Testimonios</em> of Transformative Praxis and Hope	140	40	17	30	53
92m9r81k	From Combat to College: Student Veterans in Academic 'Contact Zones'	140	57	20	15	48
28f0m2jj	The Triple Bottom Line and Wastewater Planning in San Francisco: A Tool for Environmental Justice?	138	28	12	23	75
77b1h378	Constructions of Maltreatment: Child Exposure to Domestic Violence and Its Penalization in California Law	132	35	17	16	64
5942q92r	Beyond the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Social Death and the Relationship Between School and Incarceration	131	40	18	21	52
6068z3vn	The Paradox of Colorblind: Private Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Investments and the Social Determinants of Health	130	26	16	21	67
26p7z7f2	Between ‘Blight’ and a New World: Urban Renewal, Political Mobilization, and the Production of Spatial Scale	129	27	20	32	50
0g62667k	Hijacked Identities: Silicon Valley Pakistanis and Tactics of Belonging	124	40	10	28	46
8q265969	Scaling a “Bite-Sized Implementation Strategy”: Promoting Educational Equity and Social Justice through a Farm to School Food Program	123	44	9	25	45

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