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Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America
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Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
ISBN
9780826519269 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0826519261 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780826519276 (paperback : acid-free paper)
082651927X (paperback : acid-free paper)
9780826519283 (e-book)
Publication
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
Physical Description
viii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary
"Tells the story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. Examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement of black characters in white-authored doomsday fiction and nonfiction"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 04, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index.
Contents
"Extraordinarily Convenient Neighbors" : Servant-Savior-Savants in White-Authored Post-Nuclear Novels
"Tomorrow's Children" : Interracial Conflict and Resolution in Atomic-Era Science Fiction and Afro-Futurism
Sidebar : Covering the Bomb in the African American Press
Against the "Starless Midnight of Racism and War" : African American Intellectuals and the Anti-Nuclear Agenda
Last Man Standing : Sex and Survival in the Interracial Apocalyptic
Conclusion: "Don't Drop It, Stop It, Bebop It" : Some Final Notes on Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America.
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