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Paint & Polish : Cultural Economy & Visual Culture From the West Side
No full textPaint & Polish finds visual inspiration in the microeconomic culture of Hispanic and African-American nail artists living in the Northwest Side of Chicago. Thriving on its own terms, their economy shares joy equally between client and producer. Jackie Blue, Loretta Gonzalez, Alexis, Yara Fernandez and Glynnus Alexander make up the core group of shop owners; the community of salons comprises mothers and daughters who have found long-term financial stability through craftsmanship and entrepreneurship. Included in this striking softcover volume are oral histories, conversations with the nail artists, and their portraits by Chicago based photographer Helen Maurene Cooper (b,1980). Inspired by these sources and interested in the intersection of race, class and feminism, Cooper’s rich color images and documentary style open a gateway to concerns shared by both photography and the nail art scene, such as gesture, self-expression and labor. Included are writings by Ryan Kenneth Blocker, Roula Seikaly and Patricia Reed.https://publications.lakeforest.edu/faculty_books/1005/thumbnail.jp
“Exchange Value: British ‘Scholarship Boys’ in Mid-Twentieth-Century America.”
Get PDFIn the late 1950s and early 1960s a number of British “scholarship boys” traveled to America sponsored by British and American foundations. Their experiences in the United States qualify and complicate existing narratives about upwardly mobile meritocrats. First, Americans regarded these figures in a manner that helped alter their view of themselves. Distinctions that mattered in Britain became less significant in America, though scholarship boys remained shrewd enough to penetrate the veneer of a superficial egalitarianism. National identity became a marker that sidelined residual anxieties about social hierarchy. Second, American prosperity affected the bias against consumerism shared by many British intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century. As professionals supported by government or educational institutions, these visitors differentiated themselves from those in the private sector, which pursued other goals. America exposed scholarship boys to a system that assimilated consumerism without sacrificing professionalism and a commitment to social progress
Innovation and Interprovincial Income Inequality in China
Get PDFChina’s recent economic growth has turned the country into one of the major players in the global economy, however uneven distribution of its benefits has undermined social cohesion of the country and led to outburst of civil unrest. This paper explores to what extent can innovation and its diffusion help the provinces achieve within-region convergence on income. The study employs Two-Stage Least Squares and Spatial Durbin Models to elucidate differentiate the importance of different types of innovation on inter-provincial income inequality. The results emphasize the importance of innovation, rather than invention, for convergence of income, and underscore the harmful effect of migration restrictions
Observing the Functional Maturation of the Female Prefrontal Cortex Using Ventral Hippocampal Stimulation
Get PDFAdolescence is a time when the brain continues to mature. Specifically the prefrontal cortex (PFC) goes through a process of disinhibition to inhibition as we age. Inputs to this region have a frequency dependent maturation pattern in male rats, but this has not been studied in females. We focused on frequency dependent responses in the medial PFC that are evoked by stimulation to the ventral hippocampus. This was conducted by measuring Local Field Potential responses in the medial PFC via in vivo electrophysiology. We found that stimulating with a 10 Hz train response showed no difference across age groups. In contrast, a 20 Hz train of stimulation revealed an age-dependent shift through increasing suppression of the signal. Finally, a 40 Hz train stimulation evoked suppression in all three age groups, but in different magnitudes. With these established patterns we can compare a normal PFC maturation with factors such as chronic drug use and stress
Quality or quantity? The effects of dietary composition on nutritional-signaling in \u3cem\u3eDrosophila\u3c/em\u3e larvae.
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The Praxis of Transformative and Healing Justice: Disrupting School to Confinement Pathways
Get PDFThis work examines a school to confinement pathway as a collection of policies and practices that represent structural violence. These structural issues are placed into a framework of community wellness, which recognizes the interconnection of sites of wellness between personal, organizational, and community as well as how the lack of wellness at any of these affects the individual’s agency to change circumstances at these various sites. Restorative justice, the popular solution to school to confinement pathways is explored and expanded to show its placement within a larger healing justice framework that recognizes the need to heal from a lack of wellness to build agency and uses the vision of transformative justice to re-imagine the structures that ultimately cause a lack of wellness. A case study from a nonprofit in Chicago doing Kingian Nonviolence Training is presented, and the healing justice framework applied in analysis