Baptized in PCBs : race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town / Ellen Griffith Spears.
Spears, Ellen Griffith, author.
2014
TD427.P65 S68 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Baptized in PCBs : race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town / Ellen Griffith Spears.
Author Spears, Ellen Griffith, author.
ISBN 9781469611716 hardcover alkaline paper
1469611716 hardcover alkaline paper
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Language English
Description xxiv, 440 pages ; 25 cm.
Call Number TD427.P65 S68 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.738/4
Summary "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. "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series New directions in southern studies.
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Abbreviations
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.

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