Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora
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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 the transatlantic corridor of the African diaspora. Focusing on Britain and its Caribbean colonies, Chand...























