Reckoning Day
Subtitle: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780826519276
Subjects: American literature, african american authors, history and criticism; American literature, history and criticism, 20th century; Race relations in literature; African americans, intellectual life; Antinuclear movement; Atomic bomb; African americans, politics and government; Political activists; Intellectuals
Description: "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.