Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / / Jacqueline Foertsch
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| Autore: |
Foertsch Jacqueline <1964->
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| Titolo: |
Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / / Jacqueline Foertsch
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8265-0286-5 |
| 0-8265-1928-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816137403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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