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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yano, Christine Reiko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Japanese American women > Employment.
Flight attendants > United States.
Américaines d'origine japonaise > Travail.
Agents de bord > États-Unis.
TRANSPORTATION > Aviation > Commercial.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Flight attendants
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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