A Nation of Outsiders

A Nation of Outsiders
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780199314584
ISBN-13 : 0199314586
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Book Synopsis A Nation of Outsiders by : Grace Elizabeth Hale

Download or read book A Nation of Outsiders written by Grace Elizabeth Hale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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