Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
2013
E185.61 .F64 2013
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Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
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9780826519276
9780826519269
9780826519283 (electronic book)
9780826519269
9780826519283 (electronic book)
Published
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (265 pages)
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E185.61 .F64 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.1196/073
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
"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.