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White Out? The Future of Racial Diversity in Oregon

Available Online

News: The White City by Aaron Renn (2009), in New Geography, at http://www.newgeography.com/content/001110-the-white-city
News Radio: The Oregon Story: Agricultural Workers, excerpt from OPB. http://www.opb.org/programs/oregonstory/ag_workers/workers_sub.html
Report: The State of Black Oregon report by The Urban League of Portland (2009) at http://www.ulpdx.org/StateofBlackOregon.html
Movie: Local Color: The little-known history of racism and the struggle for civil rights in Oregon, OPB video documentary at http://watch.opb.org/video/1593884540/
Movie: Northeast Passage: The Inner City and the American Dream by Spencer Wolf (2002), accessed at http://www.spencerwolf.com/gentrification_outreach.html
Website: Looking Back In Order to Move Forward: An Often Untold History Affecting Oregon’s Past, Present and Future (2009) Timeline of Oregon & U.S. Racial, Immigration and Education History” at http://oregonname.org/pdf/OregonRacialTimeline_Rector.pdf

Available in CCC's Library

Article: Building a West Coast Ghetto: African American Housing in Portland 1910-1960 by Stuart McElderry (2001), Pacific Northwest Quarterly, pp. 137-148.

Available via Interlibrary Loan
(students, staff, and faculty, as well as community library members)

Book: “Sun Down Towns: A Hidden Dimension of US Racism” by James Loewen (2005), New York: The New Press.
Book: “Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in California and Oregon” (2007) by Lynn Stephen
Book: “The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide” (2006) by Meizhu Lui
Book: “American Apartheid” (1993) by Douglass Massey and Nancy Denton
Book: “Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview” (2011) by Audrey Smedley
Three poems of interest: “A Dark Light in the West: Race and Reconciliation” by poet Barry Lopez (2010); “Drawing the Line” by Lawson Inada, Oregon Poet Laureate, (1997); Sherman Alexie, from Northwest Passages