Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i 9780824860912

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. He‘e Nalu: A Hawaiian History of Surfing
2. Colonial Violence and Hawaiian Resistance
3. Hui Nalu, Outrigger, and Waikīkī Beachboys
4. Unmanning Hawaiians: Producing “Ideal Natives” via Tourism, Hollywood, and Historical Writings
5. The Hawaiian Renaissance and Hawaiian Surfers
6. The Hui O He‘e Nalu
7. Hui in American Media: “Terrorists” on the North Shore
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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