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

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii introduction Mapping Ground Zero in Postwar America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 chapter one “Extraordinarily Convenient Neighbors” Servant-Savior-Savants in White-Authored Post-Nuclear Novels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 chapter two “Tomorrow’s Children” Interracial Conflict and Resolution in Atomic-Era Science Fiction and Afro-Futurism . . . . . . .55 chapter three Sidebar Covering the Bomb in the African American Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 chapter four Against the “Starless Midnight of Racism and War” African American Intellectuals and the Anti-Nuclear Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137 chapter five Last Man Standing Sex and Survival in the Interracial Apocalyptic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171 conclusion “Don’t Drop It, Stop It, Bebop It” Some Final Notes on Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America . . . . . . . . . . . .203 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Works Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 ...