Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways / Christine Yano.
Yano, Christine Reiko.
2011
HE9803.P36 Y36 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways / Christine Yano.
Author Yano, Christine Reiko.
ISBN 9780822348504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822348500 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822348368 (alk. paper)
0822348365 (alk. paper)
Imprint Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xv, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HE9803.P36 Y36 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 387.7/42089956073
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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