Description
Product ID: | 9781442221352 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Perspectives on a Multiracial America |
Title: | Cabin Pressure |
Subtitle: | African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor |
Authors: | Author: Louwanda Evans |
Page Count: | 174 |
Subjects: | Social discrimination and social justice, Social discrimination & inequality, Social groups, communities and identities, Ethnic studies, Ethnic studies, Social groups, Ethnic studies, Black & Asian studies, USA |
Description: | Author Louwanda Evans draws on provocative interviews with African Americans in the flight industry to examine the emotional labor involved in a business that offers occupational prestige, but also a history of the systemic exclusion of people of color. From African American pilots being asked to carry people’s luggage to patrons refusing drinks from African American flight attendants, Cabin Pressure demonstrates that racism is still very much alive in the “friendly skies.” Author Louwanda Evans draws on provocative interviews with African Americans in the flight industry to examine the emotional labor involved in a business that offers occupational prestige, but also a history of the systemic exclusion of people of color. |
Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-08-16 |