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

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

"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-autho...

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Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
Place / Publishing House:Nashville : : Vanderbilt University Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (265 pages)
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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. 
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650 0 |a African Americans  |x Politics and government  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Atomic bomb  |x Social aspects  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Antinuclear movement  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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650 0 |a African American political activists  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a African American intellectuals  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Atomic bomb in literature. 
650 0 |a Race relations in literature. 
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