Honor killing : Race, rape, and Clarence Darrow's spectacular last case /
"In 1931 Hawaiʻi, Thalia Massie, the aristocratic wife of a naval officer, accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, Thalia's mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered--an act sanctioned by sympathetic whites as an "honor killing."...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Penguin,
2006.
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| Summary: | "In 1931 Hawaiʻi, Thalia Massie, the aristocratic wife of a naval officer, accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, Thalia's mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered--an act sanctioned by sympathetic whites as an "honor killing." The ensuing murder trial, Clarence Darrow's last, enthralled the nation and exposed the shocking realities of a Hawaiian "paradise" held captive by a racist cabal of military leaders and corporate magnates." |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York: Viking, 2005, under title: Honor killing : how the infamous "Massie affair" transformed Hawai'i. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 466 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-460) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0143036637 9780143036630 |
