In previous TL posts, we have considered—directly and indirectly—the role housing has played in the lives of UH students and the community at large. Earlier posts have discussed how students wrote about Chinatown and Kaka‘ako, neighborhoods that existed on the brink of poverty with poor housing stock and sometimes dire living conditions. Leading up to…
Through them long years I have served in college [Waiale‘e Industrial School for Boys]. What I learn from there was a crook life. This is a true story which I will confessed to it. I would like to said this, This little story might help you to keep your children safe at home (G.M., “A…
The information contained here has been the product of six months study of an isolated Hawaiian community in the Makiki Valley called Maunalaha. I have gained the information first hand by intimately associating with [the residents] and having the good fortune of being accepted as one of them. The members of the community were…
As featured in previous Thinking Locally posts, the morale diaries offer a rich accounting of civilian life from 1942 through 1944, and much of what the RASRL writers reported on was what they observed and overheard as they rode the buses. Among these entries is a remarkable paper that provides a detailed analysis of the…
Recently we came upon a small subset of materials in RASRL that is unlike the rest of the student work in the Collection. If these papers are in response to an assignment, it isn’t one we’d come across before. The authors don’t sound like undergraduates, and after reading thousands of papers we know what undergraduate…
Given the large number of student papers in RASRL, one might expect that a good share of them would be about education. After all, education was what brought RASRL faculty and students together. Yet only a handful of papers are about UH and none, in our search thus far, focuses on the public schools as…
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…
One task of the archival researcher is to identify and grapple with absence: absent information, absent evidence, absent data, absent voices. It is easy to be seduced by the wealth of information in the RASRL Collection – the breadth of coverage, the number of papers, the scope of information. But periodically, we’ve stopped to contemplate…
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…
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