Baptized in PCBs : race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town /

"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 che...

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Main Author:	Spears, Ellen Griffith (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:	New directions in southern studies
Subjects:	Monsanto Company > History Monsanto Chemical Company Monsanto Company African Americans > Health and hygiene > Alabama > Anniston Environmental health > Alabama > Anniston Environmental justice > Alabama > Anniston Polychlorinated biphenyls > Environmental aspects > Alabama > Anniston Polychlorinated biphenyls > Health aspects > Alabama > Anniston Working class > Health and hygiene > Alabama > Anniston African Americans > Health and hygiene Ecology Environmental health Environmental justice HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) History NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection PCB-Belastung Polychlorinated biphenyls Polychlorinated biphenyls > Environmental aspects Polychlorinated biphenyls > Health aspects Race relations Rassismus Rechtsprechung Social conditions Social history Stadt Umweltverschmutzung Working class Working class > Health and hygiene Anniston (Ala.) > Environmental conditions Anniston (Ala.) > Race relations Anniston (Ala.) > Social conditions Alabama > Anniston Anniston, Ala USA
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