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Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature) Paperback – April 1, 2014

by Mine Okubo (Author, Illustrator), Christine Hong (Introduction)

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Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, illuminates this experience with poignant illustrations and witty, candid text. Now available with a new introduction by Christine Hong and in a wide-format artist edition, this graphic novel can reach a new generation of readers and scholars.

Read more about Mine Okubo in Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295987743/mine-okubo/

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240 pages
Language

English
Publisher

University of Washington Press
Publication date

April 1, 2014
Dimensions

5.9 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches
ISBN-10

0295993545
ISBN-13

978-0295993546
Lexile measure

920L
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"This forerunner to the modern graphic memoir is a must read, both for the important - and shameful - period of American history it documents and its poignant beauty."―Printers Row Journal, Chicago Tribune

"Originally published in 1946, Citizen 13660 is a documentation of life inside the World War II "relocation centers" for those of Japanese ancestry. This oft-overlooked portion of American history is brought poignantly to life by Okubo's expressive ink drawings and accompanying text. . . . Without a doubt, this book should be on required reading lists for high schools across the country."―Foreword Reviews

About the Author

Miné Okubo(1912 - 2001) was born in California. From 1939 to 1942 she was employed as a Works Progress Administration artist. In 1944 she was hired by Fortune magazine and relocated to New York, where she continued to work as an artist, with solo and group exhibitions at museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Washington Press; revised edition (April 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0295993545
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0295993546
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 920L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #62,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #14 in Asian American Studies (Books)
- #468 in U.S. State & Local History
- #630 in Women's Biographies

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Drawings give insight into life at Tanforan Track where Mine was imprisoned because of her race.

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2022

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I used this to try and understand the how the US Citizens of Japanese ancestry and the Issei survived in the prison camps to which they were committed because of racism and paranoid. Ironically the most famous WWII spy working for Japan in California was the British WWI fly ace Frederick Rutland.

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Diana

Recommend this book completely!!

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020

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Great condition! Such a great book too! Use it for a college class yet literally finished it in 2 readings!!

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Kate M.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2017

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I purchased this book to supplement my 8th grade language arts curriculum which looks at the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. I have since requested a class set of this title as it is the most useful and engaging text I've seen on the topic. The drawings really add to the interest factor for 14 year olds.

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oksuz

Interesting account of life in the relocation camp

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2018

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The book is very well written and gives a true image of what life was like in the camp. The illustrations further enhanced the story . Would be a great book for student history reading as many do not even know that it exisited.

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Brett Westlund

Graphic novel worth reading

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2018

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Citizen 13660 is a story about the Japanese internment camps and life within them. It is nice to finally read some literature from this event in history. The internment camps were not established until after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I did not know that we erected interment camps to place Japanese people in during the war. When they said internment camps, I couldn’t help but think about the Holocaust. Fortunately, it wasn’t anywhere near as horrific as a concentration camp. The author uses single panel drawing with captions to tell the story and the style of drawings were very desireable to my eye. Another thing I liked about this book, it really showed the strength of the human spirit in dark times. This book is a great novel that could be read in the high school classroom and it is also a great piece of free read material as well.

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Novice Handy-Person

Very raw and real. Courageous author.

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018

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Unbelievable story. Intermittent Camp is just a nice way to say PRISON! I still can’t believe this actually occurred here in this country.

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Maria

Fascinating early graphic novel about Japanese American internment camps, timely topic

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2018

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I got this to supplement Farewell to Manzanar for middle school teaching, amazing book.

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F. Orion Pozo

Important documentation of life in the internment camps of WWII

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2023

After the United States entered World War II all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were forcibly relocated to internment camps. Miné Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people swept up from their homes. She and her brother were first sent to to the Tanforan relocation center, a former racetrack, in San Bruno, California. There they shared a horse stall that smelled of manure and given sacks to fill with hay for their beds. Eventually she was tranferred to the Topaz internment camp in the Sevier Desert of central Utah; it was a dry, windy environment with harsh winters. During the war over 11,000 people were sent there.
A professional artist, she made over 2,000 drawings in charcoal, watercolor, pen, and ink, depicting her everyday experiences in these camps.
In 1946, after the war ended, she published Citizen 13660 (her government assigned number while in the camps) which contains 206 drawings from her internment, each narrated with a short text describing what is depicted in the picture. It covers her life from the years before the war to her final day at the Topaz internment camp, showing the day-to-day lives of her fellow internees of Japanese descent as she lived it. It was the first published account of the experience from an internee and won the American Book Award in 1984. This edition includes a Preface she wrote in 1983.

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