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Auteur(s) : Bhimull, Chandra D.
Titre(s) : Empire in the air [Texte imprimé] : airline travel and the African diaspora / Chandra D. Bhimull
Publication : New York : New York University press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 203 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Social transformations in American anthropology
Lien à la collection : Social transformations in American anthropology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Empire 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 do 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
Sujet(s) : Transports aériens -- Grande-Bretagne -- 20e siècle
Africains -- À l'étranger -- 20e siècle
Grande-Bretagne. Royal Air Force -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
387.706 5 (23e éd.) = Transports aériens - Entreprises commerciales
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781479843473. - ISBN 1479843474. - ISBN 9781479873050 (erroné) (PDF ebook).
- ISBN 9781479800643 (erroné) (ebook) (Institutional)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45721490x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45721490
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