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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| 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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Table of 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.