Miné Okubo’s Community Toilets at the Tanforan Assembly Center – 13.03.026.IMG_JAM.CommunityToiletsDrawingOkubo.1942.JANM.2007.62.75

Nisei artist Miné Okubo documented her family’s incarceration in drawings that were later published as a book titled Citizen 13660 (1946). This image illustrates the lack of privacy in communal bathrooms at the Tanforan Assembly Center, 1942.

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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.

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