Reckoning day [electronic resource] : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
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TextPublication details: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN: - 9780826519283
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- Race relations in literature
- Atomic bomb in literature
- African American intellectuals -- Biography
- African American political activists -- Biography
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- 323.1196/073 23
- E185.61 .F64 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
"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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