Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
(Part of the New Directions in Southern Studies Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469627299
ISBN13:9781469627298
Release Date:February 2016
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:464 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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