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

Baptized in PCBs : race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town / Ellen Griffith Spears.

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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 che...

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Main Author: Spears, Ellen Griffith (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:New directions in southern studies.
Subjects:
Monsanto Company > History.
Monsanto Company.
Polychlorinated biphenyls > Environmental aspects > Alabama > Anniston.
Polychlorinated biphenyls > Health aspects > Alabama > Anniston.
Environmental justice > Alabama > Anniston.
Environmental health > Alabama > Anniston.
African Americans > Health and hygiene > Alabama > Anniston.
Working class > Health and hygiene > Alabama > Anniston.
African Americans > Health and hygiene.
Ecology.
Environmental health.
Environmental justice.
Polychlorinated biphenyls > Environmental aspects.
Polychlorinated biphenyls > Health aspects.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Working class > Health and hygiene.
Anniston (Ala.) > Environmental conditions.
Anniston (Ala.) > Race relations.
Anniston (Ala.) > Social conditions.
Alabama > Anniston.
History.

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