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Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
by Kimi Cunningham Grant
informative
slow-paced
When I was in fifth or sixth grade, I started reading the Dear America, The Royal Diaries, and My Name Is America books. One of those, I am pretty sure in the My Name Is America series, was about a child who was living in a Japanese internment camp. This was the first time I ever knew that these events happened. Nothing was ever mentioned about this in any history class I had taken in middle or high school. I did not learn anything else about it until I was in college, and only then was it mentioned in a few paragraphs. (Granted, I was not a US history major, but still. Seems shady.) I have since read several things about this, and when I came across this book, I immediately put it on my to read list. Much to my delight, I found it the other night included in the Audible Plus catalog This book is about a five hour listen.
The author's grandmother was interned in one of these camps in California after the bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II. She tried to get her grandmother to share her experiences during this time, though her grandmother shared quite a bit, she did leave some parts out. I can understand, as it must have been an extremely difficult time with a lot of things that traumatized a person. I would have liked to know more about what happened to some people that were mentioned in the book. Overall, this was a good book and I appreciate the experiences of someone who went through such treatment.
The most striking thing to me is the fact that things in United States history are always left out or glossed over to make this country seem like THE MOST AMAZING. People just completely overlook the fact that genocide was committed against indigenous people, that Japanese people were put into what were effective concentration camps, that Italian, Irish, and Chinese immigrants were treated poorly, and so many other things it would take me a week to list. I get so aggravated with the way the school teaches about Thanksgiving every year. Perhaps this is one reason why I didn't take the path of being a US history major. It was too irritating to me.
The author's grandmother was interned in one of these camps in California after the bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II. She tried to get her grandmother to share her experiences during this time, though her grandmother shared quite a bit, she did leave some parts out. I can understand, as it must have been an extremely difficult time with a lot of things that traumatized a person. I would have liked to know more about what happened to some people that were mentioned in the book. Overall, this was a good book and I appreciate the experiences of someone who went through such treatment.
The most striking thing to me is the fact that things in United States history are always left out or glossed over to make this country seem like THE MOST AMAZING. People just completely overlook the fact that genocide was committed against indigenous people, that Japanese people were put into what were effective concentration camps, that Italian, Irish, and Chinese immigrants were treated poorly, and so many other things it would take me a week to list. I get so aggravated with the way the school teaches about Thanksgiving every year. Perhaps this is one reason why I didn't take the path of being a US history major. It was too irritating to me.