Grace Elizabeth Hale

Professor of HIstory and American Studies (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, history of the US South, documentary film studies, sound studies

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)