Grace Elizabeth Hale

Associate Professor (1997)

Office Hours: Th 12:30-3:30

Office: 108 Levering Hall

Phone: (434) 924-6413

Email: hale (at) virginia.edu

Fields & Specialties

20th century US cultural history and the US South

Education

B.A. University of Georgia, 1986
M.A. University of Georgia, 1991
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1995

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Publications

 Books:

A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle-Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/Cultural/?view=usa&ci=9780195393132

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (New York: Pantheon, 1998) (New York: Vintage, 1999) http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780679776208.html

Recent Articles:

“Shaping a Southern Soundscape,” Southern Spaces (July 29, 2010),http://www.southernspaces.org/2010/shaping-southern-soundscape

“Confederate History is About Race,” CNN.com (April 14, 2010), http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/14/confederate-history-is-about-race/?iref=allsearch, http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/125545.html

 “‘Hear Me Talking to You’: The Blues and the Romance of Rebellion,” in Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2011) http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1909

“‘My Political Beliefs Are Songs’: Pete Seeger in Cold War America,” in Kathleen Donohue, ed., Cold War America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

“’History is Hard to Know’: A Review of the Documentary Film Gonzo: the Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture 2:1 (79-82)

“A Horrible, Beautiful Beast: Kara Walker’s Art,” Southern Spaces (March 6, 2008),http://southernspaces.org/2008/horrible-beautiful-beast

“Black as Folk: The Folk Music Revival, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Romance of the Outsider,” in Joe Crespino and Matt Lassiter, eds. The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/Southern/?view=usa&ci=9780195384758

Current Research

Shooting in Harlan: Documentary Work and the New Left in Appalachia (new book project) 

Cool Town: Athens, Georgia and the Promise of Alternative Culture in Reagan’s America ( University of Georgia Press, forthcoming in 2012)