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Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America
Jacqueline Foertsch
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Description for Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America
Paperback. "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. Num Pages: 251 pages, , black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 175 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.
Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar America. It tells the wide-ranging story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. It examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of major figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement (or absence) of black characters ... Read more
Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar America. It tells the wide-ranging story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. It examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of major figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement (or absence) of black characters ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826519276
SKU
V9780826519276
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Reviews for Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America
Reckoning Day's real strength is its fearless exploration of a wide range of 'race-inflected' responses to the discourses of nuclear disaster. - Stephanie Brown, Ohio State University, author of The Postwar African American Novel