Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: After Obama
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: What's in a Label?
Thinking about Diversity and Racial Categories
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
History in the News: Whose Monuments? Whose Memory?
Join Willamette Heritage Center for a panel discussion on historical monuments, memory, and the complex history of colonialism, racism, and white supremacist imagery in American culture. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Think & Drink on Criminalization, Prisons, and Accountability
The Deschutes Public Library Foundation and Oregon Humanities present a Think & Drink conversation on criminalization, poverty, prisons, harm, and systems of accountability within the US criminal justice system with writer and educator Walidah Imarisha in Bend.
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: After Obama
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: What Are You?
Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon’s Past and Future
What Is Mine
Editor Kathleen Holt on looking for identity in the post-colonial welter of midcentury Hawaii.
A City's Lifeblood
As efforts to clean up Portland Harbor begin, the communities most affected by pollution see a chance to reconnect to the Willamette River. By Julia Rosen
Think & Drink with Walidah Imarisha
A conversation on criminalization, poverty, prisons, harm, and systems of accountability within the US criminal justice system with writer and educator Walidah Imarisha.
Think & Drink
A conversation focusing on race, power, and justice
Stake Your Place
The Cully neighborhood of Portland offers a glimpse at the complex racial, ethnic, and economic factors at play in a community trying to resist the forces of gentrification, displacement, and change.
Conversation Project: What Are You?
Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon's Past and Future
Vanport Mosaic Festival
Theater, documentaries, historic exhibits, lectures, and tours will explore will explore the history and legacy of Vanport. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.
"Priced Out" Screening and Dialogue
Watch an excerpt from the film and then join the discussion about how rising housing prices are displacing Portland's black community. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.
All Our Voices
Mary Thompson, a 2016 graduate of Humanity in Perspective—a college humanities course for adults facing barriers to their education—shares what the program has meant to her and what she hopes for the future in her address to the 2017 graduating class.
Conversation Project: Where Are You from?
Exploring What Makes Us Oregonians
Conversation Project: What's in a Label?
Thinking about Diversity and Racial Categories
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Mic Crenshaw
A conversation reflecting on the show with hip hop artist and activist Mic Crenshaw. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Pancho Savery
A conversation reflecting on the show with Pancho Savery, professor of English and humanities at Reed College. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Creator Dahlak Brathwaite
A conversation reflecting on the show. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion on Faith and Religion
A conversation reflecting on the show with Conversation Project leader Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo of Interfaith Muse. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
The Opposite of What We Know
Writer Putsata Reang reflects on the project "Bitter Harvest"
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with JoAnn Hardesty
A conversation reflecting on the show with JoAnn Hardesty, President of NAACP Portland branch. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Bitter Harvest
Writer Putsata Reang and filmmaker Ivy Lin explore the stories of Chinese laborers in the 1900s who helped establish the state's reputation as an international beer capital, despite exclusion laws that kept them from owning the hop farms where they worked.
Conversation Project: Where Are You from?
Exploring What Makes Us Oregonians
Conversation Project: Where Are You from?
Exploring What Makes Us Oregonians
Conversation Project: What's in a Label?
Thinking about Diversity and Racial Categories
Conversation Project: Power, Privilege, and Racial Diversity in Oregon
Willamette University professor Emily Drew will lead participants in a conversation that explores some of the causes of this continued isolation and the differences of experience between Oregonians of different races—such as institutional racism, white privilege, and unconscious bias.
POSTPONED Conversation Project: Power, Privilege, and Racial Diversity in Oregon
Emily Drew will lead participants in a conversation that explores some of the causes of this continued isolation and the differences of experience between Oregonians of different races—such as institutional racism, white privilege, and unconscious bias.
Healing the Divide
Talking about race in Southern Oregon
Bitter Harvest Screening and Discussion
Video screening and panel discussion about This Land's Bitter Harvest project
Conversation Project: What's in a Label?
Thinking about Diversity and Racial Categories
Conversation Project: What's in a Label?
Thinking about Diversity and Racial Categories
Race & Place: Old Town's Chinatown and Japantown through Chinese American and Nikkei Eyes
Chinese and Japanese American elders explore Old Town's multiethnic and multiracial past. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Conversation Project: What's in a Label?
Thinking about Diversity and Racial Categories
Conversation Project: Power, Privilege, and Racial Diversity in Oregon
Many Oregonians value racial diversity and the dimension and depth it adds to our lives, yet we remain largely isolated from one another and have yet to fulfill the vision of a racially integrated society. Willamette University professor Emily Drew will lead participants in a conversation that explores some of the causes of this continued isolation and the differences of experience between Oregonians of different races—such as institutional racism, white privilege, and unconscious bias.
Conversation Project: Where Are You from?
Exploring What Makes Us Oregonians
Think & Drink on Poverty, Displacement, and Inequality
A conversation with Portland leaders and activists working on creative ways to mitigate the effects of the city's housing shortage and build more stable, prosperous communities.
Conversation Project: What's in a Label?
Thinking about Diversity and Racial Categories
Conversation Project: Where Are You From?
Exploring What Makes Us Oregonians
Race & Place: Old Town's Chinatown and Japantown through Chinese American and Nikkei Eyes
Chinese and Japanese American elders explore Old Town's multiethnic and multiracial past. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Conversation Project: Where Are You from?
Exploring What Makes Us Oregonians
Think & Drink on the Future of Urban Development in Portland
A conversation about the future of housing and urban development in Portland with civic leaders and developers poised to make it happen.
History in the News: Immigration in Oregon's Past and Present
The first program of the 2017 History in the News forum series explores the history of immigration, immigration law, and immigrant rights in Oregon. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Conversation Project: What Are You?
Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon's Past and Future
Community Forum on Identity and the Use of Race on National Forms
The NAACP Eugene-Springfield Branch hosts a forum about racial identification on government forms. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Conversation Project: What's in a Label?
Thinking about Diversity and Racial Categories
Portland Expo Center: A Hidden History
This film produced by Jodi Darby for Oregon Humanities shares the experiences of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in the Portland Expo Center during World War II.
Facing the N-Word
Writer Donnell Alexander reflects on the making of “An Oregon Canyon”
Words Have Life
Filmmaker Sika Stanton reflects on the making of “An Oregon Canyon”
An Oregon Canyon
Produced by Sika Stanton and Donnell Alexander for Oregon Humanities, this film reveals the story of a canyon in Jefferson County, Oregon that was renamed for John A. Brown in 2014, one of the first Black homesteaders in Oregon.
Within Makeshift Walls
Author Eric Gold on the Portland Expo Center’s era as a prison for Japanese Americans during World War II.
The Farmers of Tanner Creek
Writer Putsata Reang on the little-known history of Chinese farmers and vegetable peddlers in Portland
"I'm Not Staying Here Another Day"
A conversation about the Great Migration with Isabel Wilkerson and Rukaiyah Adams
Just People Like Us
Writer Guy Maynard on a little-known history of a Southern Oregon community during World War II where prisoners of war were more welcome than US military of color
A Tremendous Force of Will
A conversation about the Great Migration's and the civil right movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson
In the Land of the New
Mexican immigrants find home in el nuevo South. An excerpt from Translation Nation by Héctor Tobar
Community in Flux
The long-persecuted Roma people begin to speak out. By Lisa Loving
My North Star
How Mumia Abu-Jamal Led Me to Activism. An essay by Walidah Imarisha
Posts
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Future: Portland
Civic leaders describe the loss of Portland's strong black communities and the hope of restoring them in the future in a video by Ifanyi Bell.
Magazine Podcast: Quandary
Talking about Ferguson, feminism, and filling out forms with Oregon Humanities magazine contributors
The Late Show
Journalist Nigel Duara on the media becoming part of the story in the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
Boxed In
Writer Wendy Willis ponders which race to check and which people to leave behind when asked about her racial and ethnic background.
The Air I Breathe
Filmmaker Ifanyi Bell writes about growing up underestimated in Portland
The Bamboo Ceiling
Alex Tizon on how "Orientals" became "Asians." An excerpt from Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self
Small Man in a Big Country
Native language is just the first thing an immigrant family abandons in order to become American. An excerpt from Little Big Man: In Search of My Asian Self by Alex Tizon
What It Means to Say Portland
Mitchell S. Jackson on the experience of growing up Black in North and Northeast Portland.
My Brother, the Keeper
A woman tries to understand her brother's need to hoard. An essay by Dmae Roberts
A Hidden History
Walidah Imarisha on revealing the stories and struggles of Oregon’s African American communities.
Dangerous Subjects
An excerpt from R. Gregory Nokes's book Breaking Chains looks back at Oregon's history of exclusionary laws.
More Than Skin Deep
Scholar Naomi Zack on the science and social construction of race in America
One America?
A conversation between Gregory Rodriguez and Tomas Jimenez about American identity, race, immigration, and ideology.
Picture Their Hearts
Dionisia Morales looks back at her parents interracial marriage before the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
Being Brown
Bobbie Willis Soeby on when skin lies and when skin tells the truth
Legally White
Muslim immigrants vie for citizenship in the early twentieth century. By Kambiz Ghaneabassiri
Uprockin' the Rose City
The community that hip hop built in Portland. An article by Walidah Imarisha
What Remains
A search for the site of a notorious massacre in Hells Canyon