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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:books;\nTitle:Voices from the Camps: Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II;\nCreators:Larry Dane Brimner;\nInterestLevel:Grades 7-8; Grades 9-12;\nReadingLevel:Grades 7-8;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Displacement; Evils of racism; Hazards of passing judgment; Injustice; Power of the past;\nGenre:Young Adult; History;\nPoV:Third-person narration, though with many quotes from former inmates;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Books\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Voices from the Camps: Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II;\nAuthor:Larry Dane Brimner;\nIllustrator:;\nOrigTitle:;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nSeries:;\nGenre:;\nPublisher:Franklin Watts;\nPubDate:1994;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\nMediaType:;\nPages:110;\nAwards:;\nISBN:;\nWorldCatLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/voices-from-the-camps-internment-of-japanese-americans-during-world-war-ii/oclc/28710145\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.worldcat.org/title/voices-from-the-camps-internment-of-japanese-americans-during-world-war-ii/oclc/28710145\n </a>\n ;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n Brief overview book for juvenile audiences on the wartime removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans by prolific children's book author Larry Dane Brimner. The \"voices\" of the title are taken from testimony by Japanese Americans before the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Commission_on_Wartime_Relocation_and_Internment_of_Civilians\" title=\"Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians\">\n Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians\n </a>\n (CWRIC).\n </p>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Synopsis\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Synopsis\">\n Synopsis\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n <i>\n Voices from the Camps\n </i>\n tells its story in eight chapters and an afterword. After an introductory chapter, the next two cover Japanese immigration and the\n <a class=\"mw-redirect encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_movement\" title=\"Anti-Japanese movement\">\n anti-Japanese movement\n </a>\n and events leading to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066\" title=\"Executive Order 9066\">\n Executive Order 9066\n </a>\n . The next two chapters cover the roundup of Japanese Americans and their journey to concentration camps and life in those camps. A chapter on Japanese American military service follows, with the last two chapters covering the closing of the camps and return to the West Coast and the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Redress_movement\" title=\"Redress movement\">\n redress movement\n </a>\n . The afterword draws parallels with contemporary issues and cites the need to keep vigilant about civil rights.\n </p>\n <p>\n Numerous quotations from\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Nikkei\" title=\"Nikkei\">\n Nikkei\n </a>\n testimony before the CWRIC are included throughout the book. The book is illustrated with two sixteen-page photographic inserts. End materials include a glossary and brief bibliography.\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Additional_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Additional_Information\">\n Additional Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Author Larry Dane Brimner (1949– ) was born in Florida but raised in Kodiak Island, Alaska, where he went to high school. After graduating from San Diego State University, he become a high school writing teacher in El Centro, California, and later taught at San Diego State after obtaining a master's degree there in 1984. After publishing his first book for children in 1987, he quit to become a full-time writer. According to his website, he has authored more that 175 books—both fiction and non-fiction—for children of various ages.\n </p>\n <p>\n Though generally well researched—in the acknowledgements, Brimner mentions major Japanese American institutions such as the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Japanese_American_National_Museum\" title=\"Japanese American National Museum\">\n Japanese American National Museum\n </a>\n ,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/National_Japanese_American_Historical_Society\" title=\"National Japanese American Historical Society\">\n National Japanese American Historical Society\n </a>\n , and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Japanese_American_National_Library\" title=\"Japanese American National Library\">\n Japanese American National Library\n </a>\n as well as such well-known community leaders as\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Sue_Kunitomi_Embrey\" title=\"Sue Kunitomi Embrey\">\n Sue Kunitomi Embrey\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Violet_Kazue_de_Cristoforo\" title=\"Violet Kazue de Cristoforo\">\n Violet deChristoforo\n </a>\n —it does contain a number of minor errors. Among them: it confuses segregationist Congressman\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/John_Rankin\" title=\"John Rankin\">\n John Rankin\n </a>\n with pacifist Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin (page 13); defines\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Military_Areas_1_and_2\" title=\"Military Areas 1 and 2\">\n Military Area #2\n </a>\n as \"[e]verything else [besides Military Area #1] west of the Mississippi\" (33; Military Area #2 included only the portions of Washington, Oregon, California, and Oregon not part of Military Area #1); claims that the Supreme Court ruled on the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Yasui_v._United_States\" title=\"Yasui v. United States\">\n <i>\n Yasui\n </i>\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Hirabayashi_v._United_States\" title=\"Hirabayashi v. 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