Miné Okubo's groundbreaking book, Citizen 13660, was the first book-length account on America’s concentration camps from the perspective of a former incarceree. Miné was born on June 27, 1912 in Riverside, CA. Her parents were both from Japan, her father was a scholar and her mother was an artist. When they immigrated to the US, her father found work as a gardener while her mother raised their six children on her own, which limited her pursuit of an art career. Because of this, Miné vowed not to
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Miné Okubo's groundbreaking book, Citizen 13660, was the first book-length account on America’s concentration camps from the perspective of a former incarceree. Miné was born on June 27, 1912 in Riverside, CA. Her parents were both from Japan, her father was a scholar and her mother was an artist. When they immigrated to the US, her father found work as a gardener while her mother raised their six children on her own, which limited her pursuit of an art career. Because of this, Miné vowed not to
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