Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture

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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.