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03834aam a22005058i 4500 001 EE7DA852D4E311E3810EC6B1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140506010127 008 131227s2014 ncu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2013041122 020 $a 1469611716 (cloth : alkaline paper) 020 $a 9781469611716 (cloth : alkaline paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)860944046 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-al 050 00 $a TD427.P65 $b S68 2014 082 00 $a 363.738/4 $2 23 084 $a HIS036120 $a HIS036120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Spears, Ellen Griffith. 245 10 $a Baptized in PCBs : $b race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town / $c Ellen Griffith Spears. 263 $a 1404 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c 2014. 300 $a pages cm 490 0 $a New directions in Southern studies 520 2 $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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Polychlorinated biphenyls $x Environmental aspects $z Anniston. $z Anniston. 650 0 $a Polychlorinated biphenyls $x Health aspects $z Anniston. $z Anniston. 651 0 $a Anniston (Ala.) $x Environmental conditions. 610 20 $a Monsanto Company $x History. 650 0 $a Environmental justice $z Anniston. $z Anniston. 650 0 $a Environmental health $z Anniston. $z Anniston. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Health and hygiene $z Anniston. $z Anniston. 650 0 $a Working class $x Health and hygiene $z Anniston. $z Anniston. 651 0 $a Anniston (Ala.) $x Race relations. 651 0 $a Anniston (Ala.) $x Social conditions. 650 7 $a NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). $2 bisacsh 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214050347.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021011550.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826091411.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EE7DA852D4E311E3810EC6B1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search