Foertsch Jacqueline Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America 9780826519276

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Автор: Foertsch Jacqueline
Название: Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America
ISBN: 9780826519276
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Гражданские права и гражданство

ISBN-10: 082651927X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 30.09.2013
Серия: Political Science
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 10 illustrations
Размер: 249 x 175 x 18
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Civil rights & citizenship
Подзаголовок: Race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar america
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 nations 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 in white-authored doomsday fiction and nonfiction. Author Jacqueline Foertsch analyzes the work of African American thinkers, activists, writers, journalists, filmmakers, and musical performers in the atomic decades of 1945 to 1965 and beyond. Her book tells the dynamic story of commitment and interdependence, as these major figures spoke with force and eloquence for nuclear disarmament, just as they argued unstintingly for racial equality on numerous other occasions. Foertsch also examines the location of African American characters in novels, science fiction, and survivalist nonfiction such as government-sponsored forecasts regarding post-nuclear survival. In these, black characters are often displaced or absented entirely: in doomsday narratives they are excluded from executive decision-making and the stories often triumphant conclusions; in the nonfiction, they are rarely envisioned amongst the typical American survivors charged with rebuilding US society. Throughout Reckoning Day, issues of placement and positioning provide the conceptual framework: abandoned at ground zero (Americas inner cities) during the height of the atomic threat, African Americans were figured in white-authored survival fiction as compliant servants aiding white victory over atomic adversity, while as historical figures they were often perceived as elsewhere (indifferent) to the atomic threat. In fact, African Americans position on the bomb was rarely one of silence or indifference. Ranging from appreciation to disdain to vigorous opposition, atomic-era African Americans developed diverse and meaningful positions on the bomb and made essential contributions to a remarkably American dialogue.

Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America, Foertsch Jacqueline