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

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

Maker (1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.14
DescriptionA 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.";1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.

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