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Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI
No full textFrom Sherman Alexie\u27s films to the poetry and fiction of Louise Erdrich and Leslie Marmon Silko to the paintings of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith and the sculpture of Edgar Heap of Birds, Native American movies, literature, and art have become increasingly influential, garnering critical praise and enjoying mainstream popularity. Recognizing that the time has come for a critical assessment of this exceptional artistic output and its significance to American Indian and American issues, Dean Rader offers the first interdisciplinary examination of how American Indian artists, filmmakers, and writers tell their own stories.
Beginning with rarely seen photographs, documents, and paintings from the Alcatraz Occupation in 1969 and closing with an innovative reading of the National Museum of the American Indian, Rader initiates a conversation about how Native Americans have turned to artistic expression as a means of articulating cultural sovereignty, autonomy, and survival. Focusing on figures such as author/director Sherman Alexie (Flight, Face, and Smoke Signals), artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, director Chris Eyre (Skins), author Louise Erdrich (Jacklight, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse), sculptor Edgar Heap of Birds, novelist Leslie Marmon Silko, sculptor Allen Houser, filmmaker and actress Valerie Red Horse, and other writers including Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and David Treuer, Rader shows how these artists use aesthetic expression as a means of both engagement with and resistance to the dominant U.S. culture. Raising a constellation of new questions about Native cultural production, Rader greatly increases our understanding of what aesthetic modes of resistance can accomplish that legal or political actions cannot, as well as why Native peoples are turning to creative forms of resistance to assert deeply held ethical values.https://repository.usfca.edu/read_books/1006/thumbnail.jp
The Academic Mind and Reform: The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life
No full textFor over two generations economist Richard T. Ely popularized a wide spectrum of significant liberal social principles and mirrored many of the dilemmas, frustrations, and successes of the academician as a reformer. He was the originator of many ideas that agitated American reform circles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and unlike most professors of his time, he frequently engaged in the public controversies that raged around the crucial social issues of the day.
Through the use of Ely’s vast published writings and his large collection of personal papers, Benjamin G. Rader shows him to have been the most provocative spokesman in America of the New Economics which was an important stimulus to the reform efforts in the late nineteenth century. The New Economics inaugurated the institutional economics of the twentieth century and influenced such men as John R. Commons, Thorstein Veblen, Wesley C. Mitchell, and later John K. Galbraith.
Ely’s influence on higher education, Rader concludes, was inestimable. His ideas embodied the antecedents of modern welfare economics, but he was also an important figure in promoting the then-new disciplines of political economy, sociology, agricultural economics, and land economics.
Honorable mention, Frederick Jackson Turner Award given by the Organization of American Historians.
Benjamin G. Radar is assistant professor of history at the University of Montana.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_economics/1004/thumbnail.jp
Work & Days
No full textReleased in September, 2010, Works & Days, has garnered unusual critical attention for a first book. Known for his book reviews and op-ed pieces as well as for his scholarly work in the areas of American Indian studies and visual and popular culture, Dean Rader has produced a debut collection that is an ambitious and funny series of poems that judge Claudia Keelan has described as a primer for MFA programs everywhere. Divided into three sections-- Works, &, and Days --Rader\u27s poems map the intersecting roads of the personal and the cultural. The first section, Works, contains poems about works that shape how the author sees the world, like the poetry of Wallace Stevens, popular music, the art of Robert Motherwell, the mysteries of Havana, Hesiod\u27s ruminations on duty and the divine, and Frog and Toad. & is a more playful experimental section that connects the themes of Works (poems about Michael Jackson, pumpkins, Dorothea Lange, and Frog and Toad) with the autobiographical final section. Days begins with the poet\u27s 30th birthday and marks each subsequent birthday until his 41st, which loops back to the path of Works with a final closing poem inspired by the Estonian composer Arvo Part (and, of course, Frog and Toad).https://repository.usfca.edu/read_books/1004/thumbnail.jp
Automatisierte Einstellung und Evaluation der elektrischen Hörschwelle bei Cochlea-Implantat-Patienten
No full textA generalization of Rader's utility representation theorem
No full textRader's utility representation theorem guarantees the existence of an upper semicontinuous utility function for any upper semicontinuous total preorder on a second countable topological space. In this paper we present a generalization of Rader's theorem to not necessarily total preorders that are weakly upper semicontinuous.Weakly upper semicontinuous preorder; utility function
Journey To The Scars: A White Trash Epic
No full textInspired by the work of writers Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe and motivated by celebrity prevaricator James Frey, Journey to the Scars: A White Trash Epic is a memoir that attempts to redefine the genre by applying the ideals and themes of gonzo and new journalism. The opening chapter, The Diary of John Doe Frankenstein tells the story of a pivotal event in the author\u27s life. Immediately following this narrative of a near fatal motorcycle accident, the author/narrator\u27s reliability is called into question and the remainder of the memoir is the story of the author\u27s efforts to uncover the truth about himself, and more importantly, the events and motivating forces that led to the author\u27s almost Near Death Experience. Starting with a nonjudgmental look at the life of his parents before he was born, our unreliable narrator/author hopes to improve the reader\u27s opinion of himself while also uncovering the true stories behind all the fictional ones he\u27s been telling himself and others his entire life. As he learns more about where he came from, he begins to try to understand why he has made some of the decisions in his own life. Life is one long party for James Patrick Makowski and he shares his experiences not as a victim of his choices, but as a lonely man who just doesn\u27t want to be left off of any of Life\u27s guest lists. In a final attempt to improve his credibility with the reader, the author retells the story of his accident with as much focus on factual detail and verifiable events as possible. His select poems reveal his attempts at emotional honesty while appending documentation is included for the purposes of veracity. Treating himself as a hostile witness, the narrator/author goes on to share the development of his literary integrity when he meets the most honest person he has ever met--the drug dealing Dog. Tales of the Dog summarizes the author/narrator\u27s attempts to improve his credibility and why this quest has been so important to him. Journey to the Scars: A White Trash Epic is the gonzo story of one man\u27s efforts to be his own messiah. The author/narrator, after realizing that his life to date has been in large part the result of his efforts to forget his past, J Patrick Rader begins his efforts to remember his
Über den Zusammenhang zwischen parametrisierten Spread-of-Excitation-Kurven und Sprachverständlichkeitsschwellen in Cochlea-Implantaten
No full textThe roles of different pathways in the release of cholesterol from macrophages
No full textCholesterol efflux occurs by different pathways,
including transport mediated by specific proteins. We determined the effect of enriching cells with free cholesterol
(FC) on the release of FC to human serum. Loading Fu5AH
cells with FC had no effect on fractional efflux, whereas enriching mouse peritoneal macrophages (MPMs) resulted in
a doubling of fractional efflux. Efflux from cholesterol normal
MPM and Fu5AH cells to 15 human sera correlated
well with HDL parameters. However, these relationships were reduced or lost with cholesterol-loaded MPMs. Using
macrophages from scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI)-,
ABCA1-, and ABCG1-knockout mice, together with inhibitors
of SR-BI- and ABCA1-mediated efflux, we were able to quantitate
efflux upon loading macrophages with excess cholesterol
and to establish the contributions of the various efflux
pathways in cholesterol-normal and -enriched cells. The removal
of ABCA1 had essentially no effect on the total efflux
when cell cholesterol levels were normal. However, in
cholesterol-enriched cells, the removal of ABCA1 reduced
efflux by 50%. Approximately 20% of the efflux stimulated
by FC-loading MPM is attributable to ABCG1. The SR-BI
contribution to efflux was small. Another pathway that is
present in all cells is aqueous diffusion. Our studies demonstrate
that this mechanism is one of the major contributors
to efflux, particularly in cholesterol-normal cells
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