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Striving to Thrive: Black and Indigenous Women Reflect on Higher Education in Oregon’s Only Women’s Prison

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: This collaborative and creative paper explores and documents the realities of Black and Indigenous transgender and cisgender women at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Oregon in their pursuit of higher education. Through poetry, essays, personal narratives, and art, this paper reveals how Black and Indigenous students experience and navigate the structural and systemic barriers they face in engaging with higher education opportunities while in prison, and reflects on strategies for dismantling those barriers.

Source: JCSCORE

DOI: 10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2022.8.1.20-35

Authors: Deborah Arthur, Tanuia Davis, Kiesha Johnson, Rinita Loweb, Lanelle Rowe, Sasha Womack

Institution: Portland State University

Language: English

Topic: Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4281616995

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