African Americans against the bomb : nuclear weapons, colonialism, and the Black freedom movement / Vincent J. Intondi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Intondi, Vincent J., author.

Series:

Stanford nuclear age series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American political activists--History--20th century.

African American political activists.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Antinuclear movement--United States--History--20th century.

Antinuclear movement.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Anti-imperialist movements.

History.

United States.

Anti-imperialist movements--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xi, 207 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015].

Summary:

Since 1945, African Americans have protested the bomb. However, historians have generally ignored their involvement when studying the anti-nuclear movement. Now for the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb tells the compelling story of those black activists who fought for nuclear disarmament, often connecting the nuclear issue with the fight for racial equality and liberation movements around the world. Vincent Intondi shows that many in the black community viewed nuclear weapons through the lens of race, openly questioning the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and the threats So use nuclear weapons in Korea in the 1950s and in Vietnam a decade later. Black activists linked the nuclear issue to colonialism as they witnessed the United States obtaining uranium from the Congo and France testing its first nuclear weapon in Africa. From W.E.B. Du Bois to President Barack Obama, Aincan Americans Against the Bomb offers an eye-opening account of those African Americans who recognized that nuclear disarmament and the black freedom movement were inextricably linked. Book jacket.

Contents:

The response to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

"We will not go quietly into the night" : fighting for peace and freedom during the McCarthy era

"Links in the same chain" : civil rights, anticolonialism, and the bomb in Africa

"Desegregation not disintegration" : the Black freedom movement, Vietnam, and nuclear weapons

"From civil rights to human rights" : African American activism in the post-Vietnam era

"No more Hiroshimas".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804789424

0804789428

9780804792752

0804792755

OCLC:

889324086