Margaret Lam, Again

As we’ve said in previous posts, Margaret Lam was a bit of a character.  She looms large in the RASRL Collection possibly because she made her presence felt.  She was vocal, and in spite of her size cast a long shadow over the RASRL research in the 1930s.   Reading correspondence by and about her,…

Margaret Lam (cont.)

In an earlier post, we discussed the life and career of Margaret Lam who was a University of Hawai‘i graduate student and worked in the Social Research Laboratory. She wrote articles for several sociology journals including Social Process in Hawaii.  She also provided supporting material for Romanzo Adams’ pioneering work, Interracial Marriage in Hawaii. In the RASRL…