Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture - Hardcover
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Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture
"A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... Gorgeously written and brilliantly researched, this book is both a warning and a wonder." -- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Aviator and the Showman
"[A] strange and captivating account... Rossi excels at exposing the bunk pseudoscience at the heart...
Michael Rossi is a historian of science and medicine at the University of Chicago and the author of The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America, He has written for the London Review of Books, Nature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Cabinet, among other publications. At the University of Chicago, Rossi is a member of the History Department,...
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