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Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways

Christine Reiko Yano

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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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Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways by Christine Reiko Yano. ISBN 9780822348504. Published by Duke University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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