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The Common Read is a well-established, nation-wide practice. By introducing the program to AASU thorugh our First Year Experience Resource Center we will achieve greater student/instructor collaboration, greater academic rigor, and greater interdisciplinary cooperation. In this environment, students and instructors alike will enjoy the benefits of a cohesive and engaging curriculum.
This Year's Title:
When the Emperor Was Divine
Set in America during World War II, this novel tells the story--from five perspectives--of a Japanese-American family living in California whose father is arrested by the FBI and whose mother and two children are sent to an internment camp in the Utah desert.
Read the New York Times review.
Resources
How to Utilize the Text:
Campus Wide , in the College of Science and Technology, in the College of Liberal Arts, and in the College of Education - all generated by the Interdisciplinary Common Read Workshop Faculty here at AASU.
From Random House: Teacher's Guide
Additional Resources - Available on campus at the First Year Experience Center!
By Theme:
History:
World War II
| Title | Call Number |
| Japanese Internment During World War II: a history and reference guide | REF D769.8.A6 N4 2002 |
| By Order of the President: FDR and the internment of Japanese Americans | D769.8.A6 R63 2001 |
| Know your enemy--Japan [videorecording] | Videocassette 2749 |
Mid-20th-Century American Culture
| America encounters Japan; from Perry to MacArthur | E183.8.J3 N39 |
| The Censored Ear: American visual experience during World War Two | D 810 .P7 U47 1993 |
Eye-Witness Accounts and Other Primary Materials:
from the Wisconsin Historical Society:
| Do's & Don'ts from an internment camp in Topaz, UT. |
| War Relocation Work Corps Pamphlets |
| Letter of Appeal, from an interred Japanese-American citizen. |
from the UCLA Japanese American Research Project:
| The Estelle Ishigo Papers, 1941-1957. |
Japanese Culture: Religion/Zen Buddhism/Emperor Worship
| Japanese religion and society : paradigms of structure and change | BL2203 .D37 1992 |
| Religion in Japan : arrows to heaven and earth | BL2210 .R428 1996 |
| The different paths of Buddhism : a narrative-historical introduction | BQ4022 .O57 2005 |
| The Buddhist religion; a historical introduction | BL1451.2 .R6 |
| Buddhism : a very short introduction | BQ4022 .K46 2000 |
Literary/Textual Analyses:
The Rhetoric of Propaganda
| Losing our democratic spirit: congressional deliberation and the dictatorship of propaganda | JK 33.9 G 73 1999 |
| War propaganda and the United States | D753.3 .L3 |
Images
Internment images from famed photographer Dorothea Lange
War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945
Japanese-American Internment Camps During WWII- Marriott Library, The University of Utah
Truman Library: The War Relocation Authority and The Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II: Background
Internemnt images from famed photog Ansel Adams Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar - American Memory from the Library of Congress
ARC Gallery: Japanese American Experiences during World War II
Japanese Relocation During World War II
Japanese-American Internment
