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Zusatztext For a nation whose history is so deeply saturated by white supremacy, Americans have paid an awful lot of attention to the disaffections of a wide array of self-proclaimed white outsiders and underdogs. Grace Elizabeth Hale provides a rich and intelligent account of how alienated-often fully aggrieved-marginality became the mainstream in post-war U.S. culture, from Holden Caulfield, the Beats, and the new minstrelsy of rock 'n' roll, to William F. Buckley and the white grievances of the Moral Majority. It's as if white Americans across the political spectrum had been rehearsing responses to the Obama presidency for two generations. This is an important book, not only for what it says about our past, but what it suggests about our present and our future as well. Informationen zum Autor Grace Elizabeth Hale is 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
