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Informationen zum Autor Christine R. Yano Klappentext ""Airborne Dreams" is a fascinating account of Pan Am's 'Nisei' program and the ways that it embodied interrelated conceptions of postwar America, gender and racial politics, globalism, and cosmopolitanism. By combining sources ranging from airline archives to interviews with many former Pan Am stewardesses, Christine R. Yano has given us a refreshingly novel understanding of corporate history and its relation to key social and cultural issues."--Laura Miller, author of" Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics" Zusammenfassung An account of Pan Ams 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Conducting Research the "Pan Am Way" vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Pan Am Skies as Frontier of Jet-Age Mobility 1 1. 1955: Postwar America, Things Japanese, and "One-World" Tourism 17 2. "The World's Most Experienced Airline": Pan Am as Global, National, and Personal Icon 33 3. "Nisei" Sterwardesses: Dreams of Pan American's Girl-Next-Door Frontier 57 4. Airborne Class Act: Service and Prestige as Racialized Spectacle 93 5. Becoming Pan Am: Bodies, Emotions, Subjectivity 129 6. Frontier Dreams: Race, Gender, Class, Cosmopolitan Mobilities 161 Appendix: Chronology of Pan American World Airways, 1927-1991 183 Notes 187 Bibliography 205 Index 221
