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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:books;\nTitle:Silver Like Dust;\nCreators:Kimi Cunningham Grant;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Evils of racism; Family – blessing or curse; Power of the past; Role of women;\nGenre:Memoir;\nPoV:first person memoir by Yonsei woman;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:Reflections on the past [118]; Identity and values-Nisei [44]; World War II-Mass removal (“Evacuation”) [57]; World War II-Concentration camps-Living conditions [67]; Identity and values-Yonsei [339];\nGeography:Los Angeles, California; Florida; Seabrook Farms, New Jersey;\nChronology:1930s to 2000s;\nFacility:Heart Mountain [5] - Cody, Wyoming; Pomona [24] - Pomona, California;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Books\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment;\nAuthor:Kimi Cunningham Grant;\nIllustrator:;\nOrigTitle:;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nSeries:;\nGenre:Memoir;\nPublisher:Pegasus Books;\nPubDate:2011;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\nMediaType:;\nPages:325;\nAwards:;\nISBN:;\nWorldCatLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.worldcat.org/title/silver-like-dust-one-familys-story-of-americas-japanese-internment/oclc/738350374\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.worldcat.org/title/silver-like-dust-one-familys-story-of-americas-japanese-internment/oclc/738350374\n </a>\n ;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n Memoir published in 2011 centering on the author's grandmother, who slowly tells the author the story of her life and incarceration at\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain\" title=\"Heart Mountain\">\n Heart Mountain\n </a>\n , over the course of several visits with the author. Her grandmother's detailed narrative from the perspective of a young woman of twenty when the war breaks out—the happy childhood in Los Angeles, the shock of war and forced removal, meeting her husband at the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Pomona_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Pomona (detention facility)\">\n Pomona Assembly Center\n </a>\n , marrying in camp, and having her first child there, before resettling in\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Seabrook_Farms\" title=\"Seabrook Farms\">\n Seabrook Farms\n </a>\n , New Jersey—is contrasted with the author's vastly different life as a contemporary young woman of roughly the same age when she begins the project. Having grown up in Pennsylvania, apart from her grandmother in Florida, the visits also allow the two women to really get to know each other for the first time. The book includes various brief historical snippets that provide the larger context of the war and the Japanese American experience for readers with no background on the topic.\n </p>\n <p>\n While Terry Ann Lawler in\n <i>\n Library Journal\n </i>\n calls\n <i>\n Silver Like Dust\n </i>\n \"a heartwarming, informative, and accessible tale\" in which the author \"seamlessly intersperses the narrative with facts about World War II, Japan, and the period\" and\n <i>\n Kirkus Reviews\n </i>\n calls it a \"[w]ell-written book about life in a Japanese internment camp and the social and political forces that allowed their existence,\"\n <i>\n Publishers' Weekly\n </i>\n finds the story told \"in a segmented fashion that fails to cohere\" and calls it \"tedious... and dissonant....\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n Might also like\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (book)/\" title=\"Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (book)\">\n Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps\n </a>\n </i>\n by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald;\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/gasagasagirlgoes00unse\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp\n </i>\n </a>\n by Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/After the Bloom (book)/\" title=\"After the Bloom (book)\">\n After the Bloom\n </a>\n </i>\n by Leslie Shimotakahara\n </p>\n</div>\n",
"reviews": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Reviews\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Reviews\">\n Reviews\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Bush, Vanessa.\n <i>\n Booklist\n </i>\n , January 1 & 15, 2012, 34. [\"Grant offers a portrait of the stoicism and patriotism of her family as well as differences in generations, as the stories evoke her own feelings of rage.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kimi-cunningham-grant/silver-like-dust/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Kirkus Reviews\n </a>\n </i>\n , Nov. 1, 2011. [\"Well-written book about life in a Japanese internment camp and the social and political forces that allowed their existence—though Obaachan’s reticence subdues the emotional intensity of the story.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Lawler, Terry Ann.\n <i>\n Library Journal\n </i>\n 137.7 (2012), 50–51. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost.[\"This is a heartwarming, informative, and accessible tale of personal family history.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Publishers' Weekly\n </i>\n , Oct. 31, 2011, p. 46. [Unfortunately, Grant... has chosen to tell this story in a segmented fashion that fails to cohere\"]\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"footnotes": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Terry Ann Lawler,\n <i>\n Library Journal\n </i>\n 137.7 (2012), 50–51, accessed on March 31, 2013 from Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost;\n <i>\n Kirkus Reviews\n </i>\n , Nov. 1, 2011, accessed on March 31, 2013 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kimi-cunningham-grant/silver-like-dust/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kimi-cunningham-grant/silver-like-dust/\n </a>\n ;\n <i>\n Publishers' Weekly\n </i>\n , Oct. 31, 2011, p. 46.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230613175534\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.020 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.027 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 367/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 7961/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2273/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 791/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 18.353 1 -total\n 12.83% 2.355 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 12.54% 2.301 1 Template:Reflist\n 11.61% 2.130 1 Template:Databox-Books\n 7.46% 1.370 1 Template:Published\n 7.40% 1.359 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 7.04% 1.292 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2449-0!canonical and timestamp 20230613175534 and revision id 30053\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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