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Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways /

An account of Pan Am s Nisei stewardess program (1955-1972), through which the airline hired Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American) stewardesses, ostensibly for their Asian-language skills.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yano, Christine Reiko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.