A Nation of Outsiders
How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 April 2014
- ISBN 9780199314584
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages404 pages
- Size 231x155x27 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 illus. 0
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Short description:
A broad cultural history of the postwar US, this book traces how middle-class white Americans increasingly embraced figures they understood as outsiders and used them to re-imagine their own cultural position as marginal and alienated. Romanticizing outsiders and becoming rebels, middle-class whites denied the contradictions between self-determination and social connection.
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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.
Wide ranging and engagingly written, A Nation of Outsiders is one of the most provocative works in post-World War II U.S. history published in recent years.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Outsiders and Rebels
Part I: Learning to Love Outsiders
1. Lost Children of Plenty: Growing Up as Rebellion
2. Rebel Music: Minstrelsy, Rock and Roll, and Beat Writing
3. Black as Folk: The Folk Music Revival, the Civil Rights Movement, and Bob Dylan
4. Rebels on the Right: Conservatives as Outsiders in Liberal America
Part II: Romance in Action
5. The New White Negroes in Action: Students for a Democratic Society, the Economic Research and Action Project, and Freedom Summer
6. Too Much Love: Black Power and the Search for Other Outsiders
7. The Making of Christian Countercultures: God's Outsiders from the Jesus People to Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority
8. Rescue: Christian Outsiders in Action in the Pro-Life Movement
Conclusion: The Cost of Rebellion
Index
