Republic of outsiders
Subtitle: the power of amateurs, dreamers, and rebels
By: Alissa Quart
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781595588753
Subjects: Social psychology; Imagination; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Creative ability
Description: A tribute to grassroots Americans who are expanding the capacities of their respective fields explores how groups of professional and amateur businesspeople, civil rights activists, and alternative thinkers are organizing to spread their ideas and promote change.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Outsider mentality; title: Beyond sanity; title: Beyond feminism; title: Beyond normal; title: After the gatekeepers; title: Beyond Hollywood; title: Beyond top 40; title: The center cannot hold; title: Beyond meat; title: Beyond mass markets; title: Postscript; title: Afterword.