TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foertsch,Jacqueline
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Reckoning day: race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America 
SN  - 9780826519283
AV  - E185.61 .F64 2012
U1  - 323.1196/073 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Nashville
PB  - Vanderbilt University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Race relations in literature
KW  - Atomic bomb in literature
KW  - African American intellectuals
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American political activists
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Antinuclear movement
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Atomic bomb
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826519283/
ER  -