Race Ralph Ellison And American Cold War Intellectual Culture

Download or read book Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture written by R. Purcell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.