During the 1926-27 academic year, William Carlson Smith joined the UH faculty as a visiting member. Smith was a good fit for UH’s Sociology Department. In the 1920s, Smith worked as a researcher on the Survey of Race Relations with Robert Park investigating “relations between Orientals and whites on the Pacific Coast” (Tentative Findings of…
As mentioned in other Thinking Locally posts, the RASRL Collection contains more than just student papers. “What People in Hawaii are Saying and Doing” is a series of thirty-eight reports, covering the years 1943 to 1963 and published by UH’s Sociology Department for the purpose of sharing new research on topics of current interest with…
In this paper, I shall attempt to fulfill the purpose set forth before me, that is, “to develop an objective, critical, and analytical attitude” in the study of my family. I shall attempt to erase all biases and sentimentalism and deal with it as an object (R. T., “A Sociological Study of the Family,” Folder:…
The RASRL Collection can overwhelm with its thousands of papers by individual students, so when we come across writers who have a body of work in RASRL, we take note. Margaret Lam, featured at Thinking Locally, is someone we’ve come to know through her research and writing as well as her correspondence with Andrew Lind.…
I found that the Army is a very fertile soil in the field of sociology, I think that students who are veterans enjoy a great deal of advantage over the non-veterans . . .. The veteran had traveled widely and met people from all walks of life and when he got his discharge, he had…
We at Thinking Locally have struggled with the question of anonymity for the RASRL writers. We want to credit them for their work, but we’ve learned that the RASRL papers donated by the faculty to UHM’s Archives don’t completely belong to the library and probably never really belonged to the faculty who donated them. The…
Why do these girls prefer to work in homes when so much of the campus activities and events must be sacrificed? Why must they work? Why do they work? Are there no other choices? . . . All these girls needed financial support in order that they may have an education, a higher education (Anon.,…
Hawaii’s public schools were unofficially segregated for most of the Territorial Era, from the 1920s to the 1950s. Under pressure from a growing number of White migrants, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) implemented a program of selective admissions based on English language abilities. English Standard Schools (ESS) were open to students who could pass…
The University of Hawai‘i Romanzo Adams Social Research Laboratory (RASRL) Collection contains an extensive body of student papers on urban Honolulu and rural Hawai‘i communities during the Territorial Era and beyond. The best papers offer intimate and often vibrant portraits of life in communities – plantations on all islands, urban slum areas, middle-class neighborhoods, as…
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