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Author Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-

Title Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.

Publication Info. Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African American political activists -- Biography.
African American intellectuals -- Biography.
Atomic bomb in literature.
Race relations in literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Foertsch, Jacqueline. Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America. Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013] viii, 251 pages 9780826519269 (DLC) 2012035734
ISBN 9780826519276 (paperback : acid-free paper)
9780826519269
9780826519283 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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