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Race in the United States reading list

CCC Library resources examining race and historical / present-day intersectional issues in the United States and Oregon.

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Come by CCC Library to check out the following books related to race and racism in Oregon. Learn about each book and check its availability by selecting its title or cover art. Find them on the shelves using their call numbers. All you need is your CCC ID card and you can have them for six weeks.

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Topic: Race, racism, and Oregon
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Print and eBooks

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The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate

by Sarah L. Sanderson
Call Number: HT1521 .S2735 2023
About Jacob Vanderpool and Oregon City

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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

by James W. Loewen
Call Number: E185.615 .L577 2006

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Massacred for Gold: the Chinese in Hells Canyon

by R. Gregory Nokes
Call Number: F882.H44 N65 2009

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It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History

Call Number: F884.P857 I7 2023

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A Force for Change : Beatrice Morrow Cannady & the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936

by Kimberley Mangun
Call Number: F881.C36 M364 2010

Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America

by Richard Benjamin
Call Number: E184.A1 B374 2009

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Eden Within Eden

by James J. Kopp
Call Number: HX655.O7 K67 2009

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The Portland Black Panthers

by Lucas N. N. Burke; Judson L. Jeffries
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A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America

by Elinor Langer
Call Number: E184.A1 L2575 2004

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Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon

by Glenn Anthony May
Call Number: F881.35.M66 M39 2011

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Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon, 1820s-1860s

by Nathan Douthit
Call Number: E78.O6 D68 2002

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Survival Math

by Mitchell Jackson
Call Number: E185.86 .J332 2019

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Inside the Klavern

by David A. Horowitz (Ed.)
Call Number: HS2330 .K63 I57 1999

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Mexicanos in Oregon: Their Stories, Their Lives

by Erlinda Gonzales-Berry; Marcela Mendoza
Call Number: E184.M5 G647 2010

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Pan-Tribal Activism in the Pacific Northwest

by Vera Parham
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A Song below Water

by Bethany C. Morrow
Call Number: PZ7.1.M6757 So 2020

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Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859

by Gray H. Whaley
Call Number: E78.O6 W53 2010

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The Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon

by Joe Biel
Call Number: F884.P89 B53 2022

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Breaking Chains

by R. Gregory Nokes
Call Number: KFO2801.6.S55 N65 2013

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Piecing Me Together

by Renée Watson
Call Number: PZ7.W32868 Pi 2017

Articles, podcasts, and streaming videos

Podcast - It Did Happen Here
It Did Happen Here is an independently produced podcast and a collectively written book about anti-fascist struggles that took place in Portland, Oregon following the 1988 murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads. This is the story of how disparate groups used a diversity of tactics to fight neo-nazi violence and right wing organizing in the Rose City in the 1980s and 90s. It Did Happen Here is the winner of a 2022 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award.
Article - Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment, 1940–2000
Gibson, K. J. (2007). Bleeding Albina: A history of community disinvestment, 1940–2000. Transforming Anthropology, 15(1), 3-25.
Article - Oregon’s Japanese incarceration camps during WWII (Oregon Encyclopedia)
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast.
Article - History is in the Interpretation: Asian Americans in Portland (HuffPost)
Article - What If Heroes Were Not Welcome Home? (Oregon Historical Society)
Article - White Supremacy & Resistance (Oregon Historical Quarterly)
Article - The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America (The Atlantic)
Video - Massacre at Hells Canyon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Chinese immigrants were instrumental in building the West, but they faced unprecedented legalized discrimination and violence. In 1887, a gang of Wallowa County men killed as many a 34 Chinese gold miners along the Snake River. For over a century the murders were covered up, and no one was held accountable. Today, the massacre at Hells Canyon is finally acknowledged.
Podcasts, Videos - Respond to Racism LO
Recommended videos, podcasts, books, and tools from Respond to Racism LO (Lake Oswego)

DVD - Local Color by Jon Tuttle; John Lindsay; Oregon Public Broadcasting; Oregon Historical Society
Call Number: DVD E185.93.O7 L633 2008
Publication Date: 1991

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