Research Guides: Race in the United States reading list: Racism in Oregon

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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

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

Breaking Chains

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

Piecing Me Together

by Renée Watson
Call Number: PZ7.W32868 Pi 2017

Articles, podcasts, and streaming videos

Cultivating Belonging in Clackamas County: A Research Justice Study (2024)
Over the last four years, the Research Justice Institute at the Coalition of Communities of Color engaged with Black, Indigenous, and people of color in Clackamas County to capture their experiences, needs, and desires. The result is a set of calls to action that community and dominant institutions can work towards to achieve belonging.
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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The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

Massacred for Gold: the Chinese in Hells Canyon

It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History

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

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

Eden Within Eden

The Portland Black Panthers

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

Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon

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

Survival Math

Inside the Klavern

Mexicanos in Oregon: Their Stories, Their Lives

Pan-Tribal Activism in the Pacific Northwest

A Song below Water

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

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

Breaking Chains

Piecing Me Together

Articles, podcasts, and streaming videos