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Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America
- Title
- Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
- Author
- Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
- Publication
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
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- Description
- viii, 251 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Antinuclear movement > United States > History > 20th century
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Race relations in literature
- Atomic bomb > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- African American intellectuals > Biography
- African American political activists > Biography
- Atomic bomb in literature
- African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc F 13-374
- ISBN
- 9780826519269 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0826519261 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780826519276 (paperback : acid-free paper)
- 082651927X (paperback : acid-free paper)
- 0826519288 (e-book)
- 9780826519283 (e-book)
- 9780826519283 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012035734
- 40022804073
- OCLC
- 811238996
- Author
- Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
- Title
- Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
- Publisher
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022804073
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 13-374