Baptized in PCBs (Compact Disc)

Ellen Griffith Spears

ISBN 10: 1482970163 / ISBN 13: 9781482970166

Published by Blackstone Publishing, 2014

About this Item

Compact Disc. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Baptized in PCBs (Compact Disc)
• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482970163
• ISBN 13: 9781482970166
• Binding: Compact Disc
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

[Includes Bonus PDF with photos]
[Read by Bernadette Dunne]

In the mid1990s, 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 workingclass 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 Annistonfrom 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 militaryindustrial 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.

About the Author

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.