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Baptized in PCBs Lib/E: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town Library Edition
Contributor(s): Spears, Ellen Griffith (Author), Dunne, Bernadette (Read by)

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ISBN: 1482970147     ISBN-13: 9781482970142
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
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Binding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- History | African American
Dewey: 363.738
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 1990's
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
- Locality - Anniston, Alabama
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
Features: Unabridged
 
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Publisher Description:

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.


Contributor Bio(s): Spears, Ellen Griffith: -

Ellen Spears earned a PhD from Emory University in 2006. She is assistant professor in New College and the department of American studies at the University of Alabama.

Dunne, Bernadette: -

Bernadette Dunne is the winner of more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.


 
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