Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora

by Chandra D Bhimull and Chandra D. Bhimull

Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Honorable Mention, 2019 Sharon Stephens Prize, given by the American Ethnological Society

Examines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industry

Empire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed lives along...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479843474
• ISBN13: 9781479843473
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"