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



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Autore: Foertsch Jacqueline <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / / Jacqueline Foertsch Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Nashville : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina: 323.1196/073
Soggetto topico: 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
African American intellectuals
Atomic bomb in literature
Race relations in literature
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: "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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: Reckoning day  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8265-0286-5
0-8265-1928-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816137403321
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