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02885aam a2200469 i 4500 001 57D95CD08E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140205010036 008 120921s2013 tnua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2012035734 020 $a 082651927X (paperback : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780826519276 (paperback : acid-free paper) 020 $a 0826519261 (cloth : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780826519269 (cloth : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)811238996 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d TJC $d BDX $d YDXCP $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E185.61 $b .F64 2013 082 00 $a 323.1196/073 $2 23 100 1 $a Foertsch, Jacqueline, $d 1964- 245 10 $a Reckoning day : $b race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / $c Jacqueline Foertsch. 264 1 $a Nashville : $b Vanderbilt University Press, $c [2013] 300 $a viii, 251 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 26 cm 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index. 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. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Atomic bomb $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Antinuclear movement $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 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. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211015919.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826081420.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20150520011735.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=57D95CD08E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search