Empire in the Air : : Airline Travel and the African Diaspora / / Chandra D. Bhimull.
Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyExamines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industryEmpire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed lives along...
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Bhimull, Chandra D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Empire in the Air : Airline Travel and the African Diaspora / Chandra D. Bhimull. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource : 6 black and white illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Social Transformations in American Anthropology ; 1 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Passing -- Terminal -- Introduction -- Opening Up -- Level -- 1. Groundwork -- Limit -- 2. Ascent -- Direction -- Speedbird -- 3. Speed -- Uprising -- 4. Planes -- Air Craft -- Oversees -- 5. Routes -- Lines -- 6. Descent -- Trails -- Wake -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyExamines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industryEmpire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed lives along the transatlantic corridor of the African diaspora. Focusing on Britain and its Caribbean colonies, Chandra Bhimull reveals how the black West Indies shaped the development of British Airways.Bhimull offers a unique analysis of early airline travel, illuminating the links among empire, aviation and diaspora, and in doing so provides insights into how racially oppressed people experienced air travel. The emergence of artificial flight revolutionized the movement of people and power, and Bhimull makes the connection between airplanes and the other vessels that have helped make and maintain the African diaspora: the slave ships of the Middle Passage, the tracks of the Underground Railroad, and Marcus Garvey’s black-owned ocean liner.As a new technology, airline travel retained the racialist ideas and practices that were embedded in British imperialism, and these ideas shaped every aspect of how commercial aviation developed, from how airline routes were set, to who could travel easily and who could not.The author concludes with a look at airline travel today, suggesting that racism is still enmeshed in the banalities of contemporary flight. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) African diaspora History 20th century. African diaspora-History-20th century. Airlines Great Britain History 20th century. Airlines-Great Britain-History-20th century. Imperial Airways-History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110728972 print 9781479843473 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479843473.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479800643 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479800643/original |
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