A Nation of Outsiders - How White Middle Class Fell in Love With Rebellion in Postwar

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.

Product details

• Authors: Grace Elizabeth Hale
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.02.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780195393132
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539313-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music