Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective, Airplane Mode asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of coloniali…

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