A Nation of Outsiders : How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
Grace Elizabeth. Hale
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (401 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 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 Majority8 Rescue: Christian Outsiders in Action in the Anti-Abortion Movement; Conclusion: The Cost of Rebellion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. - 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 writt
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Dissenters - History - United States Middle class - History - United States Popular culture - History - United States Vis mer... Social psychology - History - United States
Whites - Social conditions - United States Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Dissenters -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Social psychology -- United States -- History -- 20th century. United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century. History & Archaeology Regions & Countries - Americas United States - General kultursosiologi : (NoOU)UJUR1037 populærkultur usa kulturhistorie middelklassen |
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