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Diversity Council
Courses Fall 2020
Dear Students of AUP,
We, faculty and staff of AUP, have been following and participating in the Black Lives Matter demonstrations and debates taking place in the US, in France and around the world, as well as online. Some of our current and former Black students have shared stories of the discrimination, microaggressions, injustice and alienation they have experienced at AUP. Many feel erased – quite simply that Black lives don't matter enough at AUP, in classrooms and curricula, in the ranks of faculty and administrative staff, and in meetings and conversations across campus. We recognize our responsibility for allowing this to happen at AUP. We have fallen short of showing everywhere and always that Black lives matter, that the lives of all people of color and all minoritized people matter.
This is our promise to you: every one of us, in our various ways, will work hard to make sure that AUP does not just pride itself on its diversity and inclusivity but also lives up to that ambitious self-image. We commit to treating Black students and other students of color with respect and to welcoming them into our community with the same warmth and dignity as everyone else. We commit to double our efforts to fight racism and discrimination wherever it occurs, inside or outside the classroom, and to be there for Black students and other minoritized students whenever support is needed.
Galvanized by the strength of Black leaders and mentors, including AUP students and alumni, we are working hard this summer to bring about real change at AUP. Here's where we have started focusing our efforts:
The creation of a Diversity Council composed of students, faculty and staff to lead our efforts and serve the community. It will provide support for anyone who has experienced discrimination or has observed such behavior and wishes to do something about it. The council will begin its work immediately this summer.
Anti-racist and diversity training for faculty and staff. We are exploring the best ways to improve our ability to support and respect Black students and other students of color.
Modifications to the curriculum. We are reviewing our course offerings across the curriculum and finding ways to highlight and amplify anti-racist voices in our teaching.
Faculty hiring. We recognize the importance of having Black faculty and are working with the administration on long-term ways of rectifying this glaring absence.
Opportunities for activism in France. We are strengthening our ties with anti-racist organizations in France to allow faculty and students to be more involved with activism locally.
Scholarships. We are working with the Office of Admissions to find sustainable ways to fund more scholarships for Black students and other students of color.
Black student representation. We are liaising with the student government to encourage and support initiatives for the distinctive representation of Black students.
Communication. We are building sustainable platforms and expanding channels that can help us to communicate better about resources, initiatives and anti-racism support at AUP. We aim to facilitate constructive dialogue among all members of the AUP community.
Our project is ambitious and ongoing. Communication with you, our students, is crucial in making these initiatives relevant and sustainable. Your professors, advisors and counselors are here for you. Please talk to us. We hope we can gain your trust enough for you to identify any issues you face and help us protect all of you from indignity and discomfort. We care, and we will act – by listening to you, by learning with you, and, crucially, by implementing concrete changes to address these issues, thereby making the University a better place for everyone.
Signed by the faculty and staff of AUP
Coordinating Efforts Across the University
The Diversity Council supports a culture of ever-greater diversity, equity, and inclusion at AUP. It functions as an advisory council and recommending body to the President and Provost, as a liaison to departments across the University, and as an advocate for all members of the AUP community who feel they have experienced bias or discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
The newly formed Diversity Council consists of two faculty (Michelle Kuo and Evelyn Odonkor), two staff members (Jaime Chatfield and Alexis Dang) and two students (Krystel Nozier and Maura Partrick). The Council coordinates all the initiatives being taken across campus, communicates them to internal and external constituents, and serves as trained advocates for any member of our community who wishes to come forth with experiences of bias or discrimination. Members of the Diversity Council receive anti-bias, diversity and inclusion training, with special emphasis on how to handle student, faculty and staff grievances as advocates.
The Council, elected by the AUP community to serve the community, coordinates efforts with departments and units across the University and reports its findings and recommendations to the President and Provost.
It is charged with:
Promoting knowledge, the development of skills, and institutional practices to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus.
Recommending strategic initiatives, programs, speakers, and other University activities to bring attention and focus to the analysis of systemic bias and discrimination.
Liaising with the Office of Communications to coordinate and communicate initiatives being taken across the University community in an effort to create a culture of dialogue and learning around the multitude of differences that define our community.
Liaising with the task force working on anti-bias training for faculty, staff, and students, ensuring this becomes a regular practice at AUP.
Liaising with the Office of the Provost regarding the improvement of practices related to recruitment, retention, and promotion of diverse faculty and staff.
Liaising with the Admissions working group on Diversity and Inclusion to improve practices related to recruitment, retention, and support of students of color.
Serving as trained advocates for students, faculty and staff who have experienced bias or discrimination, liaising with the appropriate University office (Student Development, Human Resources, Office of the Provost) to ensure a prompt and fair hearing and appropriate institutional responses; liaise with the Office of the President and the Office of Student Development to review, clarify, and improve grievance policies and procedures.
Liaising with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment (OIE) in order to analyze available data on institutional diversity.
Creation and Composition of the Council
The AUP Diversity Council members will consist of two faculty, two staff members, and two students. Faculty and staff members will be elected for a term of two years by their peers after an open nomination (including self-nomination) process.
In the first year of the Council's establishment, the two student representatives will be appointed by consensus of the Undergraduate Student Council (USC) and the Graduate Student Council (GSC), while a process of amending the Student Constitution to include elected Diversity Officer positions is carried out. Student members will be elected for one year, but may be re-elected for a second year.
The AUP Diversity Council will nominate and elect a Council member to serve as chair.
In the first year of the Council's establishment, members will meet on a schedule of their own making, and will meet at least every two months with the President and Provost.
The Diversity Council will begin its work by discussing and finalizing the draft charter.
At the end of the first year of operations, an assessment of the Council's composition, activities and effectiveness will take place in an effort to improve and modify its structure, charge, reach, and principal activities.
The faculty of The American University of Paris want to take this opportunity to highlight courses for Fall 2020 that deal with subjects related to race, racial injustice, social injustice, Black culture and history, and more. Additional technical solutions are being explored to establish processes that students can use to identify such courses in an easier way.
CL1099 – Writing Masculinities 1984/2020
Professor Geoff Gilbert
Mehdi Charef, Le The au harem d'archi ahmed (in relation to the marche contre les inégalités/SOS racisme)
Cornell West (writing on Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign (1984); and speaking in 2020)
Audre Lorde ('Eye to Eye' and 'The Master's Tools' (1984))
bell hooks, From Margin to Center (1984)
General comparative intersectional discussion about masculinities in 1984/2020
CL/LI2091 – Migration: Local and Global
Professor Rebekah Rast
This course considers how we as humans navigate through different spaces and languages. In the case of human migration, languages often come into contact, spurring linguistic diversity and changes to speech communities. Multilingual communities develop, and often multiple identities are constructed. At the same time, we often observe discrimination through linguistic profiling, marginalization, and resistance to diversity and change. Decisions about policies, social justice and education come into play, affecting the migrants themselves and the societies into and through which they move. This course addresses questions about language issues faced by first-generation migrants and their children, including how linguistic diversity affects access to employment, education and health care. A practical component of the course involves engaging directly with students and teachers in junior high schools that welcome migrant youth and other newcomers to France, specifically those who have little to no knowledge of French language and culture. By combining theoretical reflection and practical experience, the course introduces students to key issues in migration, provides a framework for understanding and analysing these issues, and presents an opportunity to collaborate with others in identifying challenges related to migration and proposing solutions.
CL3035 – Contemporary World Literature
Professor Daniel Medin
Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), tr. Megan McDowell: Little Eyes
Adania Shibli (Palestine), tr. Elisabeth Jacquette: Minor Detail
Patrice Nganang (Cameroon), tr. Amy B. Reid: When the Plums Are Ripe
Duanwad Pimwana (Thailand), tr. Mui Poopoksakul: Arid Dreams
Yu Miri (Japan), tr. Morgan Giles: Tokyo Ueno Station
Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen (Faroe Islands/Denmark), tr. Caroline Waight: Island
Additional readings may include short fiction or excerpts from recently translated/published works by the following authors: Etger Keret (Israel), Sema Kaygusuz (Turkey), Hoda Barakat (Lebanon), Leslie Nneka Arimah (Nigeria), Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida (Angola), Jayant Kaikini (India), Can Xue (China), Fernanda Melchor (Mexico), Nona Fernández (Chile), Mariana Enríquez (Argentina), Yevgenia Belorusets (Ukraine), Esther Kinsky (Germany).
The focus of this course is contemporary fiction from around the world, with an emphasis on non-speaking English populations. That said, the material is culturally and linguistically diverse, and the content of several assigned works directly addresses issues such as race, identity and history.
EN1000 – Locating Difference: Class, Race and Gender, and the Shaping of Social Inequalities
Professor Ann Mott
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Mathieu Kassoivtz, La Haine
Laurent Cantet, The Class (Entre les Murs)
Fernando Ferreira Meirelles, City of God
Asghar Farhadi, A Separation
Class, race and gender represent three of the most powerful principles in the development of cultural ideology worldwide. Even though each culture constructs their views on these differently, that construction has almost always resulted in some form of structured inequality.
This semester our literature and films focus on the falling apart of a society's social fabric, resulting in loss of identity, apathy and social conflict, and sometimes disintegration. Depending on the social norms and culture, breakdowns may occur in the form of violence, intimidation, strikes, crime, family breakdown, drug addiction, and corruption. Our literature and films will take us from ancient Greece to the Igbo tribe in Nigeria; from the banlieues in Paris to the favelas in Rio; and from Teheran to Los Angeles, and will offer rare glimpses into both traditional and contemporary societies inviting us to investigate the different ways we 'know' the world and ourselves and the many ways we deceive ourselves about what we think we know.
EN1010E – College Writing: Reading Matter, Writing Matter
Claudia Rankine, Don't Let Me Be Lonely
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement (offers a reading of climate change which argues that we can't understand climate change unless we decenter the west)
EN1010C – Family Matters
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues"
Alice Walker, "Everyday Use for Your Grandmama"
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." These lines by Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina point to the often contorted and always intense connection between individuals and the families to which they belong. This College Writing course will explore the way different characters respond to the family pressures which alternately define, nourish, and sometimes smother them. Why is family, or the 'idea' of family so important to writers? Has this importance changed over the centuries or remained constant? Is the 'happy' family simply a myth? What do family members owe to each other? How important are family heritage and tradition? And what happens to the mythic 'happy family' when alcohol, betrayal, jealousy, mid-life crisis or desertion/neglect rear their ugly heads? We will explore the challenges characters face when forced to choose between family and authority in Sophocles's Antigone and Ashghar Farhadi's A Separation, the detrimental effects of either neglecting family or being neglected by family in Shelley's Frankenstein, and how the powerful moments in each of our lives coalesce to shape our identities and define our fates in works by James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Barry Jenkins.
EN1010 – The Creative Self
Professor Linda Martz
However pleasurable we may find them, the creative arts require discipline, focus, and commitment to achieve excellence. How do people fall in love with their art? What pushes them to make the sacrifices necessary to excel in creative fields? What does it mean to make art if what you want to express with it challenges the values of your community? The texts for this course explore the motivations of artists, dancers, musicians and actors with fiction set in a variety of contexts, from post-war Japan to 19th century Denmark to contemporary Brooklyn, and by a range of creator protagonists including Afro-Caribbean Londoners, Soviet Kyrgyz villagers, and a Hassidic Jew. Readings include Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress; Zadie Smith, Swing Time; Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World; Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev; Chingiz Aitmantov, Jamilia, and Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang.
EN1010 – Disobedience
Professor Sneharika Roy
In our world of increased activism, protests and acts of civil disobedience, this course asks what it means to be disobedient. Can disobedience on a personal and political level be the "right" thing to do? We start with Sophocles' Antigone, considered by legal scholars as "the archetype of civil disobedience," and move into a contemporary rewriting of the Antigone story in the context of the war in Afghanistan with Joydeep Bhattacharya Roy's The Watch. We then backtrack into a Christian universe that "punishes" Black moors (Shakespeare's Othello), pagans and Muslims (Dante's Inferno), and "freedom-fighters" who challenge God's authority (Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost). Finally, in a world of Photoshop, we look at Grace Nichols' celebration of non-normative body types in her deliberately defiant Fat Black Woman's Poems. She shows how, for a person triply marginalised by race, gender and body size, disobedience is nothing less than a declaration of personal independence. We will read and write about disobedience not as a stable, fixed concept but as a constructed category, defined by the powerful to exercise authority – but also constantly redefined by the disobedient in order to bring about personal transformation and social change.
EN1010B – College Writing
Professor Dan Gunn
Frank Kafka, Selected Stories
Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
EN2020 – Business and Economics in Literature
Can business practices in Islamic, Christian, Hindu and Confucian contexts really be the stuff of literature? From Sindbad the Muslim merchant-adventurer to Shylock the Jewish moneylender, from Crusoe the island-entrepreneur and his "black" slave Friday to the British domination of Indian and Chinese populations (and their domestic markets) in nineteenth-century Asia – business has been an enduring theme of literature across centuries and cultures.
EN2020 – Questioning the Self
Professor David Tresilian
'What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form and moving how express and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god.' Hamlet's words from Shakespeare's play express optimism about human possibilities, ironically placing them in the mouth of one of the dramatist's most self-conflicted protagonists. This course will look at a range of works with such self-questioning in mind. Who am I? What am I? What kinds of relationship do I have with others? Even with myself? It starts with Antigone, a work of ancient Greek tragedy having much to say about social and moral bonds. Hamlet introduces the liberal themes of self and society, separating private conscience from public roles and the range of selves presented to others. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written against the background of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the growth of the factory system, poses the question of human possibilities anew, this time in terms of scientific discovery. Freud's 'Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria' and Woolf's Room of One's Own present new ways of writing about the self, whether in terms of psychoanalysis or against the background of political and social change, while Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North draws together themes of self and society, identity and social change, in the context of colonial and post-colonial Sudan.
HI/LW2030 – Introduction to History, Law, and Society
Professor Michelle Kuo
What role does law play in shaping society? What strategies have people taken to resist unjust laws? The first half of course begins with a survey of social theorists such as Marx, Tocqueville, Durkheim, Foucault, and DuBois. The second half of the course explores topics such as the movement against the Fugitive Slave Law in the 1850s; the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s; contemporary movements in relation to asylum, detention, and deportation; and movements connected to Black Lives Matter, including restorative justice, police defunding, and prison abolition. Readings include McCleskey v. Kemp (on the racial disparity of people given the death penalty), Mae Ngai, Robert Cover, Malcolm X, Dorothy Roberts, and Angela Davis. By the end of this course, students will be able to apply critical approaches to the law to contemporary issues; perform a mock trial, from start to finish; and write persuasive and analytically rigorous papers that demonstrate interdisciplinary thinking. The course culminates in a mock trial on issues of immigration and criminal law. This course fulfills the GE 110 requirement.
HI/PL2091 – Reason in Dark Times: Past and Present of the Enlightenment
Professors Albert Wu and Julian Culp
Today the Enlightenment project stands at a crossroads. The rise of populist and nationalist movements, human-induced dangerous climate change and the asymmetric post-colonial relationships between the West and "the Rest" seriously put into question several of the Enlightenment's core commitments such as the moral ideas of freedom and equality, democratic politics, social progress and the scientifically-informed, rational control of the natural environment. The course will examine not only the historical origin and development of the Enlightenment ideas and their institutional manifestations, but also possible solutions to the contemporary challenges that engaged global citizens perhaps should pursue.
The course engages with the ways in which Enlightenment thought, with its emphasis on progress and civilization, is implicated in colonialism, imperialism and the formation of racism.
The course studies how thinkers like Tocqueville and Mill have used Enlightenment ideas to justify French and British colonialism and imperialism, and how thinkers from Algeria, Tunisia and India, including Fanon, Memmi and Gandhi, have criticized colonialism and imperialism.
HI/LW3091 – Punishment, Race, and the Law
This course explores how race has shaped criminal justice and immigration detention. We approach contemporary issues with attention to historical and legal perspectives, tracing the relationship between race and punishment. Topics include laws criminalizing poverty, birthright citizenship, the separation of children from mothers, immigrant exclusion, deportation of immigrants convicted of crimes, and the struggle to re-integrate formerly incarcerated people. Although this course focuses on American history and law, we will also spend a significant time discussing law and colonialism. Students are also encouraged to do final research papers on topics of their choice. Readings include legal opinions and dissents, Dorothy Roberts, Didier Fassin, David Garland, Loic Wacquant, Michelle Alexander, Lisa Ford, James Forman, Jr., Bruce Western, Jeremy Bentham, Michel Foucault, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Angela Davis.
PL1100 – History of Philosophy I
Professor Jula Wildberger
The course will look at sources of anthropological and ethical/moral essentialism, often an essentialism that has its roots in a certain conception of human biology and the human body. This semester, I will pay particular attention to the way in which this kind of thought has been used to ground racist and discriminatory thinking and practices – but also discourses about identity. Overall, I'll frame this as thinking about how different philosophical approaches take an objective perspective, telling you who you are and what your goals inevitably must be, in the famous classics (Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, and their monotheistic successors), while other approaches (the Hellenistic Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics) try to develop ideas that highlight the subjective perspective, that no one is able to tell you who you are and what you ought to be if not yourself.
PL2041 – Environmental Ethics
In contrast to other branches of environmental philosophy, this course focuses on issues from the viewpoint of the individual agent: their obligations, their explicit and their implicit values and commitment to principles both reasoned out by themselves and inherited in their respective tradition. How is this connected to issues race and diversity? Most directly, there is the well-known problem of environmental injustice, that both within highly industrialized countries and in the so-called developing world, people of color are the ones whose livelihood is destroyed, who must drink the polluted water, near whose neighborhood the toxic waste is dumped. Similarly, those least responsible for global heating are the ones suffering most of its effects, and when they then seek a new livelihood in the countries that have emitted all those greenhouse gases, they are dehumanized and treated as a wave of dangerous invaders. And there is more of that king. We will look at numerous examples, partly adduced by students in their projects, partly presented as part of the course material.
More indirectly, but maybe even more importantly, because this kind of thinking perpetuates and feeds systemic discrimination and social harm, we will analyze, reveal, and critique implicit racism in many arguments and, as I would call them, tropes of reasoning in environmental philosophy, such as discussions of population growth in the vein of Hardin's famous "Tragedy of the Commons". Other topics to unpack are, e.g., how slavery is adduced to argue for animal rights, the idea that harm is always a matter of personal responsibility, how conservation thinking and the idea of 'untouched' nature tends to elide the rights of local inhabitants of that 'wilderness' to be preserved.
PO2003 – Political Philosophy
Professor Philip Golub
This introductory course in Political Philosophy (PP) aims to give students an overview of and insight into the crucial critical debates that have shaped understandings of the political in the modern era. Political Philosophy has been defined as the investigation into the nature, causes and effects of good and bad government. It seeks, through systematic conceptual and empirical enquiry, to understand how human societies are organized and structured, to elucidate and oftentimes to challenge existing patterns of power and the unequal distribution of material and symbolic resources. Different PP perspectives offer diverse answers to questions regarding the State, individual and collective freedoms and rights, forms of government, citizenship, and so on. These answers reflect different visions of "human nature" and society and carry diverging normative commitments on issues such as equality, individual liberty, women's and minority rights, obedience and disobedience, multiculturalism and universalism (human rights). Students will be exposed to classical studies as well as more current critical interpretations.
PY2013 – Understanding Human Development
Professor Jens Brockmeier
Social, economic, and ethnic trajectories of human development
Various cultural models of human development
Interaction of evolutionary and cultural development
FirstBridge – Mothers and Others: Human Sex, Sexuality, and Mating Systems from Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives
IDISC1099 CCIFB4 – Human Evolution and Motherhood (Professor Elena Berg)
CL1099 CCIFB4 – Motherhood: Promise or Peril (Professor Elizabeth Kinne)
We will be answering all the questions you never dared ask your mother: why do human beings have sex? Why are there males and females and what is gender anyway? How do bodies get pregnant? Does female orgasm have an evolutionary biological purpose? Get frank, scientifically grounded answers to these questions and more from interspecies and intersectional perspectives as a biologist and feminist scholar debunk the idea of maternal instinct because what it means to be a mother depends on what animal you are and where you are. In this course, we will address questions about human sexuality and mating systems from diverse perspectives. We'll read texts by scholars of color and members of the LGBTQ community, question cultural biases that limit our conception of kinship, and dismantle racist, sexist, and heterosexual / gender normative assumptions of what "family" is.
Latin and Ancient Greek
LT1001, LT1002, LT2001, LT3050, CL3050, CL4050, GK1005, GK1006, GK2005, GK3070, GK4070, LT4070, CL3070, CL4070
One key topic addressed from beginner's level is slavery. Classical antiquity is instructive here in various ways: the slaves and racism works differently from today because it is directed also at ethnicities which are now placed on the hegemonic, colonial side of discrimination; a host of literary texts allow us to analyze how suppression and exploitation go hand in hand with dehumanization – even in authors that argue for the equality of slaves; we can also see how the racist and discriminatory thinking of the ancient authors is often perpetuated uncritically in modern reception.
By AUP students and alumni
Members of the AUP community frequently work on and write about issues related to racial and social justice. Below we have compiled a list of student organizations and articles related to these subjects. If you are an AUP student or alumna/us and want to add your work to the list, please contact communications aup.edu.
Black and Abroad (AUP Engage and Instagram)
Diversity Club (AUP Engage and Instagram)
History, Law and Society Board
Other organizations, including student publications, may work on activism. Search them all here.
You can contact Safia Benyahia (sbenyahia aup.edu) or the Student Leadership Office (Student_leadership aup.edu) if you need help getting in touch with one of these groups.
Articles by Students
"Mourning and Outrage Over George Floyd's Death Goes Global" (Stuart Johnson, Evan Floyd, Karl Baldaccino, Ki Byung Park, Husam Ibrahim and Lydia Wiernik for Peacock Plume)
"Allies and the Black Community" (Husam Ibrahim for Peacock Plume)
"George Floyd: A Black Girl's Ode to Black and Brown Bodies" (Leila Roker for Peacock Plume)
"Don't Surround Yourself with People Who Think Things Are Okay" (Leila Roker for People.com)
"7 things you can do to be a better ally right now" (Leila Roker for Today.com)
"Ten of the Best Black-Owned Businesses in Paris" (Moumi Camara for Peacock Plume)
"Diverse Yet Divided: The Reality of Segregation in France" (Joachim Fernandez for Peacock Magazine)
"#OnlineWhileBlack" (Lauren Williams for Peacock Magazine)
"Don't Touch my Hair" (A'mari Bing-Way for Peacock Magazine)
Articles by Alumni
"Black Tourism (and Beyond) in Paris" (Anne Ditmeyer G'11 for PretAVoyager.com)
"Black Lives Matter: How to be an Ally" (Anne Ditmeyer G'11 for PretAVoyager.com)
"Je suis noire et issue d'un milieu très favorisé, je ne suis pas pour autant épargnée par le racisme" (Juliette Mouline '14 for HuffPost)
"In Search of Justice" (Edwin Buggage '16 for New Orleans Data News Weekly)
"Black Men Letters to America: The Next Generation" (Joel Carter '16 for New Orleans Data News Weekly)
The University is committed to supporting community members who experience incidents of racism or bias. The grievance reporting procedure is outlined in full in the Student Handbook. Students can raise an incident with the University in several ways:
By reaching out directly to the Dean of Student Development, Kevin Fore (kfore aup.edu), or the Vice President and Dean of Student Services, Marc Monthéard (mmontheard aup.edu). Incidents will then be escalated to the Conduct Board, who will decide on any appropriate action.
Students can raise an incident with AUP's guidance counselors, who are available for confidential consultations on any subject. With the student's permission, the guidance counselors can then escalate the incident to the Dean of Student Development.
Students can raise concerns directly with AUP's newly-formed Diversity Council. This elected committee includes representatives from the student, staff and faculty bodies and deals directly with issues of diversity and racial justice at the University. More information about how to raise an incident with the Diversity Council will be available soon.
AUP's guidance counselors are also available for confidential mental health support and, in addition, can provide referrals to mental health specialists, including to Black therapists and therapists of color.
Pamela Montfort: Monday to Friday – from 9h30 to 12h30 | Schedule an appointment: https://calendly.com/pmontfort-counseling
Charlotte Vernier: Monday to Friday – from 14h00 to 17h00 | Schedule an appointment: https://calendly.com/cvernier-counseling
Below is a collection of resources related to racial justice and Black history and culture gathered by the faculty and staff of AUP.
Films, Shows and Videos
Dear White People, Justin Simien
Get Out, Jordan Peele
13th, Ava DuVernay
I am not your Negro, Raoul Peck
Harriet, Kasi Lemmons
Rosewood, John Singleton
Selma, Ava DuVernay
When they see us, Ava DuVernay
Boyz N the Hood, John Singleton
Do the right Thing, Spike Lee
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles
Queen & Slim, Melina Matsoukas
This is America, Hiro Murai (performed by Childish Gambino)
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Episode 2 with Emmanuel Atcho
Readings: Books
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, James Baldwin
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
The Color Line, Coédition Flammarion and Daniel Soutif
The Racial Contract, Charles Mills
Black Rights, White Wrongs, Charles Mills
Dark Ghettos. Injustice, Dissent, and Reform, Tommy Shelby
The Imperative of Integration, Elizabeth Anderson
How to be black, Baratunde Thurston
Mind the Gap, Mukwende M, Tamony P, Turner M
Readings: Journals, Articles and E-books
Journal: Schwerpunkt: Critical Philosophy of Race (NB: in German – the mostly Anglophone bibliography at the end of the introduction is up-to-date and very expansive), Kristina Lepold and Marina Martinez Mateo (eds.)
Article: Critical Philosophy of Race, Charles Mills
E-book: The Black Code ("Le Code Noir"), Le Marquis de Seignelay


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Nintendo Hits Milestone as Download Sales Exceed Packaged Goods, eShop Improvements Incoming
Packaged games aren't necessarily Nintendo's bread and butter anymore.
News by Nadia Oxford, Staff Writer
Updated on 20 March 2018
Is there something you think we should be reporting on? Email news@usgamer.net.
Nintendo is gradually getting the hang of the digital marketplace. In a Nindies panel at GDC 2018, the company talked about how its digital sales of its third-party games for the Switch and the Nintendo 3DS are exceeding sales of its traditional "boxed" games in the US. It also went over its plans to (finally) improve navigation of the eShop.
Nintendo outlined the Switch's success with downloadable third-party games before talking about how it plans to improve and upgrade the eShop's UI for "better discoverability" in the face of over-crowding. Currently, navigating the Switch's eShop is tedious, and discovering cool, quirky games you might want to take a chance on can be difficult. It's good to see Nintendo finally wants to take the eShop and digital distribution more seriously, especially in light of the Switch's determination to be a showcase for independent game publishers.
Let's have a hand for Nintendo's big digital winners.
The Nindies panel also offered a shout-out to some of the most successful independent titles on the Switch, including the hugely popular Stardew Valley, Celeste, Golf Story, and Steamworld Dig 2.
[With reporting from Kat Bailey]
Nadia Oxford
Nadia has been writing about games for so long, only the wind and the rain (or the digital facsimiles thereof) remember her true name. She's written for Nerve, About.com, Gamepro, IGN, 1UP, PlayStation Official Magazine, and other sites and magazines that sling words about video games. She co-hosts the Axe of the Blood God podcast, where she mostly screams about Dragon Quest.
PlayStation 5 Update Lets You Know If You're About to Play the PS4 Version of Game
Check yourself before you last-gen yourself.
Stardew Valley Just Got Beaches, Fish Tanks, Swimming Ducks, and a Whole Lot More
Nearly five years on, Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone just pushed what he says is Stardew's "biggest update yet."
Alien: Isolation Is Free on Epic and Just As Good as It Was in 2014
Get the motion tracker and don't go in the vents.
Shigeru Miyamoto Expresses Confidence in the Younger Generation of Nintendo
The legendary creator says the spirit will stay alive.

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Jul. 8th, 2016 09:12 pm Hebrew language "Wedding Doll"
Spoken in Hebrew with English subtitles, Wedding Doll opens tomorrow in local cinema. It is a quirky drama about growth that is both tragic and humorous. Hagit is a young woman with learning disabilities who works in a toilet paper factory. She is courted by the boss's son, much to Hagit's mother's disapproval. Filmed in Israel with cinematography echoes of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Wedding Doll is a dry movie with a lively performance from Moran Rosenblatt as Hagit.


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Conveying Grief Through Art
Student exhibits art project on Lenoir's lost furniture industry
The city of Lenoir, North Carolina lost thousands of jobs when the furniture manufacturing industry moved overseas for cheaper labor. Growing up, Appalachian State University student Jennifer Livingston knew her hometown's economic future looked bleak. Years later, she began asking laid-off workers about their mental and emotional anguish.
The senior art major used digital video equipment beginning in Fall 2007 to record interviews with residents who lost their jobs during the furniture industry's exodus. Her project, titled "Lenoir: Former Furniture Capitol of the South," culminated in a solo exhibit in Lenoir's historic Bernhardt-Seagle Building in April.
"I started the project by talking with my uncle and looking into different things relating to my hometown. After interviewing him, I felt passionate about this and decided it was something I wanted to pursue," said Livingston, who plans to pursue an art career on either the West or East coast.
Livingston interviewed 15 people in their homes, asking how they felt about their jobs and what it meant to be laid off, as well as what they predicted for Lenoir's economic future.
"They were very open," she said. "Most were sad because they felt the industry was here for so long and all the people in Lenoir gave so much to the furniture industry. They weren't angry, just sad."
Most weren't sure what the future holds, but most agreed that some similar manufacturing industry needed to come back.
Livingston took the four best interviews, edited each to five minutes, and then projected each one onto a white-painted piece of furniture similar to furnishings in that person's home. She hoped the installation's 3-D effect would help personalize a community concern.
"We all know what's going on, but we don't think about how it really affects people besides just the obvious financial ways. It also affects people mentally and emotionally. If you don't have money to pay your mortgage and are facing foreclosure, that becomes more than just a financial strain," she said.
Livingston has exhibited her work regionally in group shows since 2004. She presented her first solo exhibition—a large-scale, site-specific installation addressing consumer consumption and waste—in Looking Glass Gallery on the Appalachian campus.
Livingston has worked as a gallery assistant for the university's Catherine J. Smith Gallery and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts for the past three years. In 2006, she received the Windgate Museum Internship Fellowship and worked as a curatorial intern at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wis.
She will graduate in August with a bachelor of science degree in art management and a bachelor of fine arts degree in studio art.
Funding for "Lenoir: Former Furniture Capitol of the South" was provided by Appalachian's Prestigious Scholars Grant and other campus funding.
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Catherine J. Smith Gallery
Jennifer Livingston at the former Singer Furniture Company plant in Lenoir, where her uncle once worked.
Above three images: Jennifer Livingston's installation art featured videotaped interviews of furniture industry employees projected onto white-painted pieces of furniture. Her project was exhibited in Lenoir's historic Bernhardt-Seagle Building.


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Q: Unique Identifier Across Tables First off: I've looked through similar questions and haven't found an answer.  Sorry if this is a repeat.
I'm pretty new to MySQL.
Let's say I have three tables: Houses, Cars and Office Buildings
All of these things have windows, so I'm going to need a Windows table as well.
Now, each Window can be up or down, double-pane or single-pane, etc.  Each Window has (correct me if it shouldn't) a unique ID.  Each window also needs to have a record of who has opened or closed it, which is why I figured a Windows table was necessary in the first place.
The question: Each Window must have a parent_id.  But the problem arises when there's a Car with an ID of XX, and an Office Building and House with the same ID.  When my page loads, how do I know where to place the window?
I assume there are many answers to this question... I'm looking for the best way.
P.S. Windows, Cars, Houses and Office Buildings are just illustrative examples.  Not my actual data.

A: So what you're saying is that each Window can belong to either a House, Car or Office Building? The established pattern for this is a polymorphic association, which is just a fancy word for "store the type of the related model together with its id":
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id
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This allows easy selective joining and querying:
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A: You might also need one more table to map which window is mapped to which entity (Car / house / Office)
Table: window_mapping
Columns: id (primary key / auto generated)
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Or One more table approach would be
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11 Zero-Proof Alternatives To Keep You Going Through Dry January – And Beyond
Sourced Craft Cocktails, a gourmet cocktail delivery service, is offering low AVB and non-alcoholic … [+] options.
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People usually start the year with the best intentions but find it difficult to keep up with those healthy resolutions. Dry January can be challenging for those of us who enjoy a variety of beverage flavors or prefer to stay away from too much coffee, sugar and artificially flavored drinks. So here are a few suggestions that I have found enjoyable so far, and will remain on rotation moving forward.
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In America, we are used to seeing rosehips used as an ingredient in our beauty products. However, they have been used for centuries by Native Americans and healers in ancient China, Rome and the country of Georgia to strengthen the immune system, promote wound healing, cure digestive problems and improve blood circulation and heart health.
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Backyard Soda Co.
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Magic Mind is a daily shot taken along the usual morning coffee or tea that contains a unique … [+] combination of 12 active ingredients.
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Magic Mind
Magic Mind is a daily shot taken along the usual morning coffee or tea that contains a unique combination of 12 active ingredients like matcha, ashwagandha, lion's mane mushrooms, adaptogens and nootropics. Adding these to your daily routine results in increased focus, creativity, energy, and motivation while decreasing stress, oxidation and inflammation in the body. Plus, it promotes better sleep, has heaps of antioxidants and supports immunity. These superboosting shots are currently available online.
Fresh Victor offers super fresh tasting mixers in various flavors to create non-alcoholic cocktails.
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Fresh Victor
Fresh Victor is a line of cold-pressed juice-based mixers made with fair trade-sourced ingredients. These fresh, tasty productscan be used in boozy and non-alcoholic cocktails, and have won multiple Double Gold medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and the #3 Best Mixer in America Award from USA Today.
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Canadian brewery Partake offers five distinct styles including Blonde, Pale, Red, IPA and Stout.
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Partake Brewing
Those looking to cut back on alcohol or switch up their beverages can still enjoy a cold one with low calorie, low carb, non-alcoholic craft beers from Canada's Partake Brewing. Brewed with high quality ingredients and an award-winning recipe, they offer five distinct styles including Blonde, Pale, Red, IPA and Stout, with some varieties as low as 10 calories per can.
Suntory's non-alcoholic malt beverage makes lovely cocktails but it's refreshing on its own.
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Suntory ALL-FREE
Combining modern technology with decades of brewing experience, the renowned Japanese distiller and brewer released this alcohol-free beer-like beverage, with zero calories and 0.00% alcohol. Just like their traditional beer, ALL-FREE is made with two-row barley malt which contributes to the rich flavor and 100% Tennensui mineral water from the Japanese forests.
ALL-FREE is available via Amazon.com as well as select retailers nationwide like Total Wine & More, BevMo! stores in California and Arizona and select Ralphs stores in the greater LA area.
Fluère Spirits (pronounced "flew-air") is a premium non-alcoholic spirit brand from The Netherlands … [+] that just launched in the U.S.
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Fluère Spirits
Fluère Spirits (pronounced "flew-air") is a premium non-alcoholic spirit brand from The Netherlands that just launched in the U.S., combining traditional distilling techniques used for alcoholic spirits such as gin, whisky, rum, tequila and mezcal with botanicals and natural flavors. Three expressions (Original, Raspberry and Spiced Cane) are currently sold on Amazon and will be available at select brick and mortar locations in California, Illinois and Massachusetts.
"Coming from a bartending background, I fell in love with Fluère as it helped me create beautiful, sophisticated drinks for my guests," says Nikulás Hannigan, Fluère's Global Brand Educator. "It doesn't hurt that it looks stunning on the backbar." He recommends the Original paired with lime and tonic, the Smoked Agave with some ginger ale, and the Spiced Cane, made with pure sugar cane molasses, is perfect for cola and lime.
Sourced Craft Cocktails
Sourced Craft Cocktails, a gourmet craft cocktail kit delivery service, is now offering low AVB and non-alcoholic options. By drinking Sourced, customers are directly supporting local bartenders who are currently out of work due to bar closures across America.
The Cucumber Splash Spritz is a low-ABV option that combines Plume and Petal's Cucumber Splash (20% ABV) with Phocus Cucumber Caffeinated Seltzer Water, a caffeinated soda water with cucumber essence. The Apple Peach Cobbler Mocktail is a nonalcoholic creation with an apple cinnamon flavor, complemented by a topping of Phocus Peach Seltzer Water. Orders received by 2 p.m. ET will be delivered the same day.
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We therefore, as a whole church, give 10% of our income away every year. In 2017, this totalled £10,750.
Christian Aid is a Christian organization that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. They provide urgent, practical and effective assistance where need is great, tackling the effects of poverty as well as its root causes.
CLEAR is a grass roots organisation that helps individuals in their court cases with the help of local lawyers. Their aim is to help our partners overseas to reach a point where they are self-sufficient, financially and organisationally. To that end, they are also encouraging and part funding new "business" ventures, providing work for the poor and profits to help run the law projects.
The Church Mission Society is a long-established and widely respected multi-faceted mission society working in over 50 countries, with an emphasis on building up local church capacity.
Lend With Care offers a helping hand to world's poorer entrepreneurs. For example we can now help entrepreneurs in Zambia and Pakistan with as little as £15.
Christians Against Poverty is a Christian charity dedicated to debt advice, helping people out of debt, and education on personal financial management. It has 250 debt centres around the country, mostly based in churches. We feel its work is particularly important at this time.
The Samaritans lets vulnerable people talk to them at any time you like, about whatever's getting to you.
Kent Kindness have set up volunteer group's to give additional support to asylum seeking boys aged 16-17 while they are in the Ashford reception centre, and then afterwards when they are living in the community. They aim to help and supplement the activities and facilities already provided by the Kent County Council staff, and we work in partnership with them.
Goudhurst Scouts is one of 7 groups within the Weald District in Kent. They have active sections for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, catering for boys and girls from ages 6 to 14 years old. They meet weekly at Goudhurst Scout Hut in School Lane during term time, with lots of other activities at weekends and school holidays.
Fegans supports children and families in South East England by providing advice, training, and counselling and support groups to parents, schools, children and teenagers.
Readycall is a voluntary service based in Goudhurst that provides services for the needs of the community.


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