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Surfing – Shedding light on Hawaiian culture

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Professor Isaiah Helekunihi Walker hopes to enlighten locals and visitors with his book “Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth Century Hawaii.” Released this summer, the seven-chapter-read is the first piece of literature about the history of modern surfing written from a true Hawaiian perspective.

The book also hopes to shed some light on the controversy between the North Shore locals and the “Bronzed Aussies” in the 1970’s. With the Hawaiian season upon us, and scores of surfers from around the world looking to   …  More

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