Local Story and the Massie/Kahahawai Case with John Rosa

Published: March 9, 2024, 1:39 a.m.

In the 4th episode of the Hawai'i series of the Migration Conversations Podcast, I speak with Dr. John Rosa, and associate professor of history at the University of Hawai\u2019i at M\u0101noa. Dr. Rosa\u2019s research focuses on the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Hawai\u2019i and the histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. He is the author of the acclaimed book Local Story: The Massie/Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History - a riveting book on the legal proceedings surrounding a white woman who accused five racialized men of rape in the 1930s and the murder of Joseph Kahahawai.