Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
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書誌事項
Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
Duke University Press, 2011
- : pbk
- : cloth
- タイトル別名
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Airborne dreams
大学図書館所蔵 全12件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Chronology: p. [183]-185
Bibliography: p. [205]-219
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am's "Nisei"-second-generation Japanese Americans-even though not all of them were Japanese American or second-generation. They were ostensibly hired for their Japanese-language skills, but few spoke Japanese fluently. This absorbing account of Pan Am's "Nisei" stewardess program suggests that the Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American) stewardesses were meant to enhance the airline's image of exotic cosmopolitanism and worldliness. As its corporate archives demonstrate, Pan Am marketed itself as an iconic American company pioneering new frontiers of race, language, and culture. Christine R. Yano juxtaposes the airline's strategies and practices with the recollections of former "Nisei" flight attendants. In interviews with the author, these women proudly recall their experiences as young women who left home to travel the globe with Pan American World Airways, forging their own cosmopolitan identities in the process. Airborne Dreams is the story of an unusual personnel program implemented by an American corporation intent on expanding and dominating the nascent market for international air travel. That program reflected the Jet Age dreams of global mobility that excited postwar Americans, as well as the inequalities of gender, class, race, and ethnicity that constrained many of them.
目次
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
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