Airborne dreams
Subtitle: "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
By: Christine Yano
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780822348368; 9780822348504
Subjects: Japanese American women; Inc Pan American World Airways; Employment; Flight attendants
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-219 ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Pan Am skies as frontier of jet-age mobility; title: 1955: postwar America, things Japanese, and "one-world?" tourism; title: The "world's most experienced airline?" : Pan Am as global, national, and personal icon; title: "Nisei?" stewardesses:  dreams of Pan American's girl-next-door frontier; title: Airborne class act : service and prestige as racialized spectacle; title: Becoming Pan Am : bodies, emotions, subjectivity; title: Frontier dreams : race, gender, class, cosmopolitan mobilities.