What I’m Reading: Silver Like Dust – 16 in a series – “…applied to anyone with as little as one-sixteenth Japanese blood.”

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”Across every city in the new “military zone,” posters were stapled to telephone poles and taped to store windows. Labeled “Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry,” they applied to anyone with as little as one-sixteenth Japanese blood.”

From  Silver Like Dust by Kimi Cunningham Grant

What I'm Reading: Those were hakujin beaches. Whites-only beaches.

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