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Mine with open newspaper, surrounded by anti-Japanese slogans, Berkeley, California, 1941

Miné Okubo1942-1944

Japanese American National Museum

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States

A woman, Mine Okubo, stands with hands resting on newspaper surrounded by anti-Japanese propaganda and epithets hanging in the air, California during World War II. Includes "Aliens-citizens, a Jap is a Jap," "Send them back to Tojo," "Sabotage," "Can't trust them," "Evacuation from vital areas," "Enemy planes off coast," "Spy ring," "A Jap looks like this," "F.B.I. investigation," "Stab in the back," "All attention Japs," "Firecrackers found in home near airport," "Black Dragon," "Don't trust a Jap," "We don't want them," "F.B.I. arrest six," "Sorry no Japs," "Curfew must be obeyed by aliens and citizens of Jap ancestry," "Bank Freeze Jap," "We don't want Japs," "Jap.".

Details

  • Title: Mine with open newspaper, surrounded by anti-Japanese slogans, Berkeley, California, 1941
  • Creator: Mine Okubo
  • Creator Lifespan: 1912-2001
  • Date Created: 1942-1944
  • Location Created: Topaz (Central Utah)
  • Physical Dimensions: H: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Japanese American National Museum. For licensing and reuse, contact JANM.
  • External Link: Mine Okubo Collection
  • Medium: paper, ink
  • Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.14)
  • Context: This is one of 198 ink drawings Mine Okubo included in Citizen 13660, her graphic memoir, which was the first of its kind and captured her experience at Tanforan and Topaz, during the two years in which she was incarcerated.

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