Nation of Outsiders How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America

Name: Nation of Outsiders How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
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ISBN: 9780195393132

ISBN-10: 0195393139

ISBN-13: 9780195393132

Edition: 2011

Authors: Grace Elizabeth Hale

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From the rebellious Marlon Brando in The Wild One to the protest music of Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, Americans in the 1950s increasingly embraced figures they understood as outsiders, using them to re-imagine their own cultural position as marginal and alienated. In this wide-ranging and vividly written cultural history, Grace Elizabeth Hale sheds light on why so many white middle-class people decided to see themselves as outsiders and how this unprecedented shift changed American culture and society. She shows that encounters with so-called outsiders--from the Beat poets to Elvis Presley--enabled increasing numbers of middle-class whites to cut themselves free of their own histories and to…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/3/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 9.40" wide x 6.50" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Grace Elizabeth Hale is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Outsiders and Rebels



Learning to Love Outsiders



Lost Children of Plenty: Growing Up as Rebellion



Rebel Music: Minstrelsy, Rock and Roll, and Beat Writing



Black as Folk: The Folk Music Revival, the Civil Rights Movement, and Bob Dylan



Rebels on the Right: Conservatives as Outsiders in Liberal America



Romance in Action



New White Negrose in Action; Students for a Democratic Society, the Economic Research and Action Project, and Freedom Summer



Too Much Love: Black Power and the Search for other outsiders



The Making of Christian Countercultures: God's Outsiders from the Jesus People to Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority



Rescue: Christian Outsiders in Action in the Anti-abortion Movement


Conclusion: The Cost of Rebellion


Notes


Index