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000710938 1001_ $$aSpears, Ellen Griffith,$$eauthor.
000710938 24510 $$aBaptized in PCBs :$$brace, pollution, and justice in an all-American town /$$cEllen Griffith Spears.
000710938 2463_ $$aBaptized in polychlorinated biphenyls
000710938 264_1 $$aChapel Hill :$$bThe University of North Carolina Press,$$c[2014]
000710938 300__ $$axxiv, 440 pages ;$$c25 cm.
000710938 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent
000710938 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia
000710938 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier
000710938 4901_ $$aNew directions in southern studies
000710938 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000710938 5050_ $$aAbbreviations -- Introduction : Toxic Knowledge -- The Model City : A Romance of the New South -- The War for Chemical Supremacy -- Monsanto's Move "Down South" -- A Technological High Command -- War in a Time of Peace -- The Nature of the Poison -- The Death of Aroclors -- Challenging the Green Dragon -- Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Soil -- Witnessing the Explosion in Toxic Torts -- Aftershocks -- Epilogue: Remodeling the Model City.
000710938 520__ $$a"In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in these intense contemporary social movements. Spears focuses attention on key figures who shaped Anniston--from Monsanto's founders, to white and African American activists, to the ordinary Anniston residents whose lives and health were deeply affected by the town's military-industrial history and the legacy of racism. Situating the personal struggles and triumphs of Anniston residents within a larger national story of regulatory regimes and legal strategies that have affected toxic towns across America, Spears unflinchingly explores the causes and implications of environmental inequalities, showing how civil rights movement activism undergirded Anniston's campaigns for redemption and justice. "--$$cProvided by publisher.
000710938 61020 $$aMonsanto Company$$xHistory.
000710938 650_0 $$aPolychlorinated biphenyls$$xEnvironmental aspects$$zAlabama$$zAnniston.
000710938 650_0 $$aPolychlorinated biphenyls$$xHealth aspects$$zAlabama$$zAnniston.
000710938 650_0 $$aEnvironmental justice$$zAlabama$$zAnniston.
000710938 650_0 $$aEnvironmental health$$zAlabama$$zAnniston.
000710938 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$xHealth and hygiene$$zAlabama$$zAnniston.
000710938 650_0 $$aWorking class$$xHealth and hygiene$$zAlabama$$zAnniston.
000710938 651_0 $$aAnniston (Ala.)$$xEnvironmental conditions.
000710938 651_0 $$aAnniston (Ala.)$$xRace relations.
000710938 651_0 $$aAnniston (Ala.)$$xSocial conditions.
000710938 830_0 $$aNew directions in southern studies.
000710938 85200 $$bgen$$hTD427.P65$$iS68$$i2014
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