Baptized in PCBs [electronic resource] : race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town

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서명/저자사항	Baptized in PCBs [electronic resource]: race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town / Ellen Griffith Spears.
개인저자	Spears, Ellen Griffith.
발행사항	Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
형태사항	1 online resource.
총서사항	New directions in Southern studies
기타형태 저록	Print version: Spears, Ellen Griffith. Baptized in PCBs 9781469611716
ISBN	9781469615592 (electronic bk.) 1469615592 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	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.
요약	"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. "--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(단체명)	Monsanto Company --History.
주제명(지명)	Anniston (Ala.) --Environmental conditions. Anniston (Ala.) --Race relations. Anniston (Ala.) --Social conditions.
일반주제명	Polychlorinated biphenyls --Environmental aspects --Alabama --Anniston. Polychlorinated biphenyls --Health aspects --Alabama --Anniston. Environmental justice --Alabama --Anniston. Environmental health --Alabama --Anniston. African Americans --Health and hygiene --Alabama --Anniston. Working class --Health and hygiene --Alabama --Anniston. NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
분류기호(DDC)	363.7384
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