Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
2013
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Title
Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
Imprint
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013.
Description
1 online resource (265 pages)
Formatted Contents Note
"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.
"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.
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.
Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Foertsch, Jacqueline. Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America. Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013] viii, 251 pages
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Language
English
ISBN
9780826519283 e-book
9780826519276 (paperback) (acid-free paper)
9780826519269
9780826519276 (paperback) (acid-free paper)
9780826519269
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