TY - BOOK AU - Spears,Ellen Griffith TI - Baptized in PCBs: race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town T2 - New directions in Southern studies SN - 9781469615592 AV - TD427 .B378 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Monsanto Company KW - History KW - Polychlorinated biphenyls KW - Environmental aspects KW - Alabama KW - Anniston KW - Health aspects KW - Environmental justice KW - Environmental health KW - African Americans KW - Health and hygiene KW - Working class KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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. "-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=688326&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -