Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture

• Author(s): R. Purcell,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 200
• ISBN_10: 1137313846
  ISBN_13: 9781137313843
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / International Relations / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Literary Criticism / General , History / Social History , History / Modern / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / General , History / General ,

Description:... While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' – that is, race as a biological and sociological concept – played within the global and cultural Cold War.