Research Catalog

Title

Honor killing : how the infamous "Massie Affair" transformed Hawai'i / David E. Stannard.

Author

Stannard, David E.

Publication

New York, NY : Viking, 2005.

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Details

Description

ix, 466 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Recounts the 1930s case of a wife of a naval officer in Honolulu who accused six islanders of gang rape and how her mother, infuriated by the case's subsequent hung jury, arranged for the murder of one of the suspects.

Subject

• Fortescue, Grace, 1883- > Trials, ligitation, etc
• Massie, Thomas H. > Trials, ligitation, etc
• Massie, Thalia, 1911-1963
• Kahahawai, Joseph, -1932
• 1900-1999
• Trials (Murder) > Hawaii > History > 20th century
• Trials (Rape) > Hawaii > History > 20th century
• Lynching > Hawaii > History > 20th century
• Hawaii > History > 1900-1959
• Hawaii > Race relations > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-460) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Nothing but trouble -- Paradise of the Pacific -- Something awful has aappened -- Thalia's story -- Hell's half acre -- Arrest -- Rush to judgment -- Making news -- Alibis and accusations -- Taking sides -- Grace and Tommie -- On trial -- For the defense -- "Lust-sodden beasts" -- "The shame of Honolulu" -- A death in the islands -- Penthouse for a prison -- Tears of heaven -- Grand jury -- Attorney for the damned -- A copper miner's son -- Territory of Hawaii v. Fortescue et al. -- Dementia Americana -- "Everybody knows I love you!" -- Where Is Kahahawai? -- The unwritten law -- Case closed -- Prelude to revolution.

ISBN

0670033995 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005297995

OCLC

• 58721925
• SCSB-10020443

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library