News, information and highlights from the CSS family.
The ‘write’ stuff
Multiple College of Social Sciences (CSS) faculty, students and graduates contributed to essays in The Value of Hawaii 3: Hulihia, The Turning, a new open access publication available for download via ScholarSpace. Print editions will be available around the end of February 2021.
CSS faculty contributors, both current and retired, include Colin Moore (Communications and Public Policy Center); Sumner La Croix (Economics/UHERO); Davianna McGregor and Ty Tengan (Ethnic Studies); co-editor Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, Neal Milner and Heoli Osorio (Political Science); Makena Coffman (Urban and Regional Planning); and Meda Chesney-Lind (Women’s Studies).
Participating CSS students and graduates (including PhDs) are Kehaunani Abad (Anthropology), Aina Iglesias (Ethnic Studies), Hunter Heaivilin and Kyle Kajihiro (Geography and Environment), and Noʻeau Peralto and Amy Perusso (Political Science).
The book is viewable free as a pdf or ebook at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/70171.
Helping the homeless
Anna Pruitt, a faculty affiliate in the Department of Psychology, was interviewed by Hawaiʻi Public Radio in mid-November 2020 on the report, Unsheltered in Honolulu. It is based on four years of homeless data provided by Point in Time counts between 2017 and 2020.
Ten thousand individuals were matched with their service history in the state system. Lead author Pruitt said what jumped out from the findings is a disparity among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders – they are 23 percent of the general population, but 54 percent of the unsheltered in the County of Honolulu.
Jack Barile, co-author of the report and interim director of the Social Science Research Institute, noted about a third of Oʻahu’s homeless were found to have mental disabilities, physical disabilities, a drug addiction or combinations of the three.
