ISSI Fellows Working Papers
The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) at the University of California, Berkeley is a research center dedicated to understanding the processes of social change and contributing to the transformation of conditions of inequality. ISSI researchers use a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to undertake empirical investigations into critical social issues facing the nation, with a particular focus on California communities. ISSI also provides training and professional development to graduate and undergraduate students.
The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California at Berkeley. The views expressed in ISSI working papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the ISSI or the Regents of the University of California.
There are 71 publications in this collection, published between 2005 and 2015. Showing 1 - 50.
Chavez-Diaz, Mara: Social Justice Healing Practitioners: Testimonios of Transformative Praxis and Hope, 2015
Chilcote, Olivia: The Process and the People: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Luiseño Mission Indians, 2015
Henry, Colleen: Constructions of Maltreatment: Child Exposure to Domestic Violence and Its Penalization in California Law, 2015
Kim, Mimi: Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Anti-Domestic Violence Movement and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973 - 1986, 2015
Lo, Bao: Between Two Worlds: Hmong Youth, Culture, and Socio-Structural Barriers to Integration, 2015
Bass, Jackie: Am I My Brother's Keeper?: The Contested Role of African American Churches in Community Development, 2014
Ching, Yenhoa: Asian Youth and Race-Making in an Urban School: The Institution and its Power, 2014
Elcioglu, Emine Fidan: The Politics of Globalization: The Worldviews of Pro-Immigrant and Immigration Restrictionist Activists in Arizona, 2014
Fleming, Mark: Mass Transit Workers, Urban Publics, and the Politics of Time in San Francisco, 2014
Graybeal, Pam Mei Wai: Municipal Parks: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Conditions and Use in the San Francisco East Bay, 2013
Huerta Niño, Ricardo: The Power and Promise of Culture in Economic Development: Drawing on Language for Healing, Nation Building, Sovereignty, and Development Practices in the Hoopa Nation, 2013
Mahan, Margo M.: The 'Bitch Tape': How Male Batterers Find The Woman in the State, 2013
Boas, Erica M.: Education in Disguise: Sanctioning Sexuality in Elementary School Halloween Celebrations, 2012
Burga, Hector Fernando: Spatial Politics in Metropolitan Miami, 1980-1992: Cuban American Crisis, Community Development and Empowerment, 2012
Hsu, Naomi: Local Political Context and the Puzzle of Asian American Under-participation in Electoral Politics, 2012
Moore, Ellen: From Combat to College: Student Veterans in Academic 'Contact Zones', 2012
Polyakova, Alina: Explaining Support for Radical Right Parties in New Democracies: The Limits of Structural Determinants and the Potentiality of Civil Society, 2012
Tran, Nu-Anh: Contested Nationalism: Ethnic Identity and State Power in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963, 2012
Alexander, Rebecca: Marketing Whiteness: Geographies of Colorblind Liberalism, 2011
Dillon, Lindsey: Redevelopment and the Politics of Place in Bayview-Hunters Point, 2011
Dow, Dawn: Black Moms and “White Motherhood Society”: African-American Middle-Class Mothers’ Perspectives on Work, Family and Identity, 2011
Lindahl, Nicole: Intimacy, Manipulation, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries at San Quentin Prison, 2011
Martin, Karin D.: Explaining Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Race, Social Context, and Voting Behavior, 2011
Minkin, Sarah Anne: The Threat from Within: American Jews, the State of Israel, and Intermarriage, 2011
Stover, Tamera Lee: Hijacked Identities: Silicon Valley Pakistanis and Tactics of Belonging, 2011
Abramson, Corey M.: Putting Culture Back in Context: A Context Dependent Model of How Cultural Inputs, Toolkits, and Meanings Influence Action, 2010
Herrera, Juan Carlos: At the Day Labor Hiring Zone: The Politics of Immigrant Illegality and the Regulation Of Informal Labor, 2010
Martin, Anne J.: After Foreclosure: The Displacement Crisis and the Social and Spatial Reproduction of Inequality, 2010
Murphy, Kimberly R.: The Urban "Half": Resituating the History of Urban Relocation and Public Education, 2010
Schafran, Alex: The Long Road from Babylon to Brentwood: Crisis and Restructuring in the San Francisco Bay Area, 2010
Woolley, Susan W.: “The Silence Itself is Enough of a Statement”: Unintended Consequences of Silence as an Awareness-Raising Strategy, 2010
Arias, José: "How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?": The Gifts of the Deviant in Education, Society, and Epistemological (R)Evolution, 2009
Leachman, Gwendolyn: Social Movements and the Journalistic Field: A Multi-Institutional Approach to Tactical Dominance in the LGBT Movement, 2009
Lopez, Sarah Lynn: Migrant Remittances and the Mexican State: An emergent transnational development model?, 2009
Martínez-Calderón, Carmen: Out of the Shadows: Undocumented Latino College Students, 2009
Negron-Gonzales, Genevieve: Hegemony, Ideology & Oppositional Consciousness: Undocumented Youth and the Personal-Political Struggle for Educational Justice, 2009
Pido, Eric J.: The Performance of Property: Suburban Homeownership as a Claim to Citizenship for Filipinos in Daly City, 2009
Randles, Jennifer: Parenting in Poverty and the Politics of Commitment: Promoting Marriage for Poor Families through Relationship Education, 2009
Astorga, Jose A.: Creating Social Change Through a Two-way Immersion Program: La Escuelita's Efforts to Foster Spanish/English Bilingualism, 2008
Chong, Vincent: Negotiating With Agency: Towards an Intersectional Understanding of Violence and Resilience in Young Southeast Asian Men, 2008
Gleason, Emily: Making Space for Urban Girls: A Politics of Geography and Gender, 2008
Kohl, Erica: The Program Officer: Negotiating the Politics of Philanthropy, 2008
McClintock, Nathan: From Industrial Garden to Food Desert: Unearthing the Root Structure of Urban Agriculture in Oakland, California, 2008
Rosas, Lisa G.: Childhood Obesity Among Children of Mexican Descent: A Binational Approach, 2008
Sung, Kenzo: Theorizing Race within the Politics of Culture: The Reconstitution of "Blackness" in Student Discourses, 2008
U, Nicol: Risky Business: Sex-work and Young Southeast Asian American Women in Oakland, 2008
Allen, Peter: Violent Design: People’s Park, Architectural Modernism and Urban Renewal, 2007
Davis, Katrinell: Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Explanations of Employment Change Among African American Women in the Postindustrial Era, 2007
de Graauw, Els: Out of the Shadow of the State: Immigrant Nonprofits as Self-Motivated Political Actors in Urban Politics, 2007
Donez, Francisco: Black Rocks, Brown Clouds and the Borderlands: Air Quality and the Making of the Big Bend, 2007