Shopping At The Canteen, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942 — Miné Okubo

Shopping at the canteen, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942

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. The book contains almost two hundred of her pen and ink sketches accompanied by explanatory text.

Miné Okubo

Miné Okubo was an American artist renowned for her poignant drawings documenting life within Japanese American internment camps during WWII. Her powerful graphic novel, *Citizen 13660*, offers a vital witness account of resilience and injustice.

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