Christine R. Yano

Airborne Dreams: "Nisei" Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Airborne Dreams" is a fascinating account of Pan Am's 'Nisei' program and the ways that it embodied interrelated conceptions of postwar America, gender and racial politics, globalism, and cosmopolitanism. By combining sources ranging from airline archives to interviews with many former Pan Am stewardesses, Christine R. Yano has given us a refreshingly novel understanding of corporate history and its relation to key social and cultural issues."--Laura Miller, author of" Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348504
• ISBN-10: 0822348500
• Artikelnr.: 32311711

Autorenporträt

Christine R. Yano is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai`i, Manoa. She is the author of Crowning the Nice Girl: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawai`i’s Cherry Blossom Festival and Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Conducting Research the "Pan Am Way" vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: The Pan Am Skies as Frontier of Jet-Age Mobility 1
1. 1955: Postwar America, Things Japanese, and "One-World" Tourism 17
2. "The World's Most Experienced Airline": Pan Am as Global, National, and
Personal Icon 33
3. "Nisei" Sterwardesses: Dreams of Pan American's Girl-Next-Door Frontier
57
4. Airborne Class Act: Service and Prestige as Racialized Spectacle 93
5. Becoming Pan Am: Bodies, Emotions, Subjectivity 129
6. Frontier Dreams: Race, Gender, Class, Cosmopolitan Mobilities 161
Appendix: Chronology of Pan American World Airways, 1927¿1991 183
Notes 187
Bibliography 205
Index 221