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Baptized in PCBs

Audiobook

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.


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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781482970111
  • File size: 413698 KB
  • Release date: April 7, 2014
  • Duration: 14:21:52

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  • ISBN: 9781482970111
  • File size: 413749 KB
  • Release date: April 7, 2014
  • Duration: 14:31:44
  • Number of parts: 16

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Nature Nonfiction

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English

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.


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