Citizen 13660Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html |
Contents
Section 1 | 11 |
Section 2 | 14 |
Section 3 | 30 |
Section 4 | 31 |
Section 5 | 33 |
Section 6 | 38 |
Section 7 | 56 |
Section 8 | 80 |
Section 9 | 105 |
Section 10 | 118 |
Section 11 | 129 |
Section 12 | 176 |
Section 13 | 206 |
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