Cabin Pressure

African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor

By (author) Louwanda Evans

Hardback - £75.00

Publication date:

16 August 2013

Length of book:

174 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442221352

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.
The reality of everyday racisms are excellently exposed in this unique study of African Americans in the airline industry. Louwanda Evans provides a rich and powerful account of the emotional labor involved in negotiating systemic racism providing a fierce critique that has a profound resonance across a wide range of occupations. Highly recommended.