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Airborne dreams "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
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Title
Airborne dreams [electronic resource] : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways / Christine Yano.
ISBN
9780822393368 (ebook)
0822393360 (ebook)
9780822348368 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822348365 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822348504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822348500 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 228 p.) : ill.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2011.
Other formats
Print version: Yano, Christine Reiko. Airborne dreams Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2011
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the Pan Am skies as frontier of jet-age mobility
1955: postwar America, things Japanese, and "one-world?" tourism
The "world's most experienced airline?" : Pan Am as global, national, and personal icon
"Nisei?" stewardesses: dreams of Pan American's girl-next-door frontier
Airborne class act : service and prestige as racialized spectacle
Becoming Pan Am : bodies, emotions, subjectivity
Frontier dreams : race, gender, class, cosmopolitan mobilities.
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Electronic books.
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