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

Published Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes 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 POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. African American intellectuals. African American political activists. African Americans -- Intellectual life. African Americans -- Politics and government. American literature. American literature -- African American authors. Antinuclear movement. Atomic bomb in literature. Atomic bomb -- Social aspects. Race relations in literature. United States. Genre/Form Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780826519283 0826519288 129984135X 9781299841352

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