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Author Yano, Christine Reiko.
Title Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways / Christine Yano.
Publication Info Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2011.


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Descript xv, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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Author Yano, Christine Reiko.
Subject Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Japanese American women -- Employment.
Flight attendants -- United States.
Descript xv, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780822348368 (cloth)
9780822348504 (pbk.)
Author Yano, Christine Reiko.
Subject Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Japanese American women -- Employment.
Flight attendants -- United States.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 5th Floor  HE 9803 P36 Y2  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Japanese American women -- Employment.
Flight attendants -- United States.
Descript xv, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780822348368 (cloth)
9780822348504 (pbk.)
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