Louwanda Evans

Cabin Pressure (eBook, PDF)

African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881871635
• Artikelnr.: 74847635

Autorenporträt

Louwanda Evans is assistant professor of sociology at Millsaps College. She has published articles in The American Behavioral Scientist, Contemporary Sociology, and The Encyclopedia of International Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - by Joe Feagin
Preface
1: Introduction
2: Trapped at 30,000 Feet: Infiltrating White Space
3: On Display at all Times: Flight Attendants
4: Emotional Labor and Systemic Racism
5: The Emotional Labor of Coping and Resistance
6: Conclusion
References
Index