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020 _a9780826519283
020 _z9780826519269 (cloth : acid-free paper)
020 _z9780826519276 (paperback : acid-free paper)
020 _z0826519261
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aE185.61
_b.F64 2012
082 0 0 _a323.1196/073
_223
100 1 _aFoertsch, Jacqueline,
_d1964-
245 1 0 _aReckoning day
_h[electronic resource] :
_brace, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America /
_cJacqueline Foertsch.
260 _aNashville :
_bVanderbilt University Press,
_c2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a"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.
520 2 _a"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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aRace relations in literature.
650 0 _aAtomic bomb in literature.
650 0 _aAfrican American intellectuals
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAfrican American political activists
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xIntellectual life
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAntinuclear movement
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAtomic bomb
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xPolitics and government
_y20th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826519283/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33373
_d33373