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T. Bright.","url_title":"Tsuru (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Drama"],"rg_theme":["Desire to escape","Evils of racism","Individual versus society","Will to survive"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Two Nails, One Love (book)","model":"article","index":"5 5/{'value': 31, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Two%20Nails,%20One%20Love%20(book)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Two%20Nails,%20One%20Love%20(book)/"},"title":"Two Nails, One Love (book)","description":"Short novel told in the first-person voice of Ethan Taniguchi, a\n  \n   Sansei\n  \n  musician living in New York City in the year 2000, centering on the visit of his estranged mother from Hawai'i. 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Gripsholm\n   \n\n  as part of a civilian exchange—and her quest for reparations via the\n  \n   Civil Liberties Act of 1988\n  \n  changes the dynamic between them.","url_title":"Two Nails, One Love (book)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["books"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Fiction","Gay and Lesbian"],"rg_theme":["Communication – verbal and nonverbal","Family – blessing or curse","Individual versus society","Power of the past"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Books","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-book"},{"id":"Tokyo Rose: Victim of Propaganda (film)","model":"article","index":"6 6/{'value': 31, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Tokyo%20Rose:%20Victim%20of%20Propaganda%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Tokyo%20Rose:%20Victim%20of%20Propaganda%20(film)/"},"title":"Tokyo Rose: Victim of Propaganda (film)","description":"Television documentary for A&E network's \"Biography\" series that sympathetically tells the story of\n  \n   Iva Toguri d'Aquino\n  \n  and the myth of \"Tokyo Rose.\"","url_title":"Tokyo Rose: Victim of Propaganda (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Injustice","Patriotism – positive side or complications","Facing darkness","Individual versus society"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Tule Lake (book)","model":"article","index":"7 7/{'value': 31, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Tule%20Lake%20(book)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Tule%20Lake%20(book)/"},"title":"Tule Lake (book)","description":"Novel by Edward Miyakawa set in the eponymous concentration camp.\n  \n   Tule Lake\n  \n  was likely the first novel by a Japanese American set in one of the World War II concentration camps to be published when it first appeared in 1979. 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Mari Sasagawara, a former ballet dancer, arrives with her Buddhist priest father upon transfer from another camp and soon becomes the subject of much gossip by other camp inmates for her regal bearing and aloofness. After being absent from the camp for a few months—taken to an institution in Phoenix—she returns a changed woman, friendly and sociable, even organizing and teaching a dance troupe of young girls. But after the narrator leaves the camp to attend school in Philadelphia, her friend tells her that Miss Sasagawara's malaise had returned and that she was taken out of the camp again. 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