The CU Library tab provides a video introduction to services offered by Cornell University Library, as well as related links. There is also an interview about racial profiling with a leader from the Arab American Association of New York. Racial Profiling offers links to sites defining racial profiling, and selected cases of profiling. 
World War II provides a link to a government produced film on the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor, as well as links showing the contributions made by Japanese Americans during World War II. There are also authoratative web sites documenting the plight of them in the internment camps. The Internment page provides access to a government film defending the internment of persons of Japanese ancestry during WW II. There is also footage of those of Japanese ancestry being shipped off to internment camps. The Evacuation & Legality section includes legal documents and a government issued evacuation poster. The Book Overview tab provides links to web sites which offer reviews on the book When The Emperior Was Divine. The page also offers an interview with Otsuka on the book. This first page provides key web sites on Julie Otsuka. It can also be used to answer the Discovery Questions associated with Cornell University's New Student Reading Project. 
When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today’s headlines.This guide provides resource materials to support those reading When The Emperor Was Divine. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism.
Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family’s possessions. Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.
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