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Where We Live: Race and Housing

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Naomi Abrahams

Subject(s): Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Sociology

Institution(s): Mt. Hood Community College

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 12/08/2025

Race in the United States has influenced where we live.  This project-based book explores how race played a role in land ownership and housing policy, focusing on Oregon.  In essence, the project is a way of using the Sociological Imagination to examine where we live.  The Sociological Imagination requires an understanding of the connection between macro level social structures and the lives of individuals.  In this case, we are looking at the ways that the macro level of racial discrimination in housing and land ownership historically impact where we live.

This project begins with mapping technologies.  Users first learn about the racial demographics of their census tract.  Next, they explore the Native Land digital map.  In the process, they layer onto their geography some of the history of the tribal communities.  Next, users read about racial discrimination in Oregon’s history impacting: land ownership, housing policy,  immigration, and racial demographics.   This history helps users to understand the racial demographics of their census tract.

MO141 Patient Advocacy

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Jessica Sellars

Editor(s): Jessica Sellars

Institution(s): Mt. Hood Community College

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 02/08/2025

This online textbook was created for MO141 Patient Advocacy at Mt. Hood Community College, including sections on publicly funded and private health insurance, access to care issues, and case studies of patients in different medical scenarios and the different roles of health care providers who cared for them.

World Mythology

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Andy Gurevich

Subject(s): Folklore studies / Study of myth, Comparative literature, Comparative religion, Social and cultural anthropology

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 19/07/2025

Using insights from the fields of anthropology, depth psychology, religious studies, world literature, and archaeology, we explore the living knowledge of the world’s great wisdom traditions and what they can teach us about how to live more meaningful, integrated lives in the modern world.

This project was funded by the MHCC Foundation OER Grant Program and published by MHCC Library Press. MARC record available at the end of the book.

Write On!

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Gay Monteverde

Subject(s): Language learning: writing skills

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 15/07/2025

Write On! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines basic grammar and mechanics study with sentence, paragraph, and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers provide reading and discussion opportunities.

Culturally Responsive Composition

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Andy Gurevich

Editor(s): Andy Gurevich, Kevin Moore

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides, Language learning: writing skills, Research and information: general

Institution(s): Mt. Hood Community College

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 14/07/2025

This was originally published as an introduction to Gurevich’s first OER publication, “Critical Thinking.

(The material is curated and presented to be applicable for subjects and assignments across a number of academic disciplines.)

Health and Fitness for Life

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Dawn Markell, Diane Peterson

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 13/07/2025

This project was funded by the MHCC Foundation OER Grant Program and published by MHCC Library Press. MARC record available at the end of the book.

First Year Spanish 1

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Paul Eckhardt

Subject(s): Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, Spanish

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 12/07/2025

Composition in Cultural Contexts

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Andy Gurevich

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 10/07/2025

This OER text seeks to reimagine the college essay across a number of different modalities and subjectivities. Attention is paid to how traditional research has changed over the last ten years; the importance of multimodal instruction and composition; and how concepts like “authority,” “coherence,” and “standard English” carry cultural, economic, and political connotations that can be, when acknowledged and integrated into the process, meaningfully addressed to ensure as many students as possible are engaged and empowered to create meaningful and impactful forms of intentional, academic content.


This project was funded by the MHCC Foundation OER Grant Program.

Developing Reading Skills

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Grace Richardson

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 10/07/2025

This project was funded by the MHCC Foundation OER Grant Program and published by MHCC Library Press. MARC record available at the end of the book.

Chemistry of Food and Cooking

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Jessica Wittman

Subject(s): Chemistry, Food chemistry / Food science

Publisher: MHCC Library Press

Last updated: 07/07/2025

This textbook presents introductory chemistry within the framework of food and cooking for a one-term general education course for non-science majors.