Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Nation of OutsidersCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackEAN: 9780199314584Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0199314586ISBN: 9780199314584Release Date: 04/03/2014Author: Grace Elizabeth HaleItem Length: 155mmItem Height: 231mmType: United StatesSubtitle: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar AmericaPublisher: Oxford University Press IncDescription: At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. These emotions enabled some middle-class whites to cut free of their own histories and identify with those who, while lacking economic, political, or social privilege, seemed to possess instead vital cultural resources and a depth of feeling not found in "grey flannel" America. In this wide-ranging and vividly written cultural history, Grace Elizabeth Hale sheds light on why so many white middle-class Americans chose to re-imagine themselves as outsiders in the second half of the twentieth century and explains how this unprecedented shift changed American culture and society. Love for outsiders launched the politics of both the New Left and the New Right. From the mid-sixties through the eighties, it flourished in the hippie counterculture, the back-to-the-land movement, the Jesus People movement, and among fundamentalist and Pentecostal Christians working to position their traditional isolation and separatism as strengths. It changed the very meaning of "authenticity" and "community." Ultimately, the romance of the outsider provided a creative resolution to an intractable mid-century cultural and political conflict-the struggle between the desire for self-determination and autonomy and the desire for a morally meaningful and authentic life.Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 567gGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Nation of Outsiders
Title: A Nation of Outsiders
EAN: 9780199314584
ISBN-10: 0199314586
ISBN: 9780199314584
Release Date: 04/03/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 404 Pages
Publication Name: Nation of Outsiders : How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, History & Theory, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Psychology, Customs & Traditions, United States / General
Item Weight: 20.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Not Available
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Psychology, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
