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  • Portlandia's Other Children : Refugee Communities in Urban Life

    Creator:
    Kubein, Adele M.
    Abstract:
    This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee communities and particularly their businesses to gentrification and community vitality in a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The data indicates that gentrification is not a linear process of displacement of African Americans by Whites seeking affordable housing and new frontiers, but rather is...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Portland, Oregon. The data indicates that gentrification is not a linear process of displacement of

  • A Game of Silent Irreverence : Passive Resistance in The Dalles, Oregon

    Creator:
    Maddoux, Maryanne
    Abstract:
    210 East First Street (site 35WS453) contains the only extant remains of a once thriving Overseas Chinese settlement, in the city of The Dalles, Oregon. Very little is known about the everyday lives of these early settlers, or the pressures that they faced. This thesis will help to enrich the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Francisco to Portland (Barth 1964:185). The Oregon territory’s political climate at the time was less