A nation of outsiders [electronic resource] : how the white middle class fell in love with rebellion in postwar America / Grace Elizabeth Hale.
Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
2010
E169.12 .H338 2010eb
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Title
A nation of outsiders [electronic resource] : how the white middle class fell in love with rebellion in postwar America / Grace Elizabeth Hale.
Author
Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
ISBN
9780199792382 (electronic bk.)
9780195393132
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 386 p.) : ill.
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E169.12 .H338 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.0973
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : Outsiders and rebels
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
New white negroes 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 coutercultures : 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.

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