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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Spears, Ellen Griffith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Monsanto Chemical Company
Monsanto Company.
Monsanto Company > History.
PCB-Belastung
Rassismus
Rechtsprechung
Umweltverschmutzung
Stadt
Working class > Health and hygiene.
Social conditions
Race relations.
Polychlorinated biphenyls > Health aspects.
Polychlorinated biphenyls > Environmental aspects.
Environmental justice.
Environmental health.
Ecology.
African Americans > Health and hygiene.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Travailleurs > Sante et hygiene > Alabama > Anniston.
Noirs americains > Sante et hygiene > Alabama > Anniston.
Justice environnementale > Alabama > Anniston.
Biphenyles polychlores > Aspect de l'environnement > Alabama > Anniston.
Working class > Health and hygiene > Alabama > Anniston.
African Americans > Health and hygiene > Alabama > Anniston.
Environmental health > Alabama > Anniston.
Environmental justice > Alabama > Anniston.
Polychlorinated biphenyls > Health aspects > Alabama > Anniston.
Polychlorinated biphenyls > Environmental aspects > Alabama > Anniston.
Anniston, Ala.
USA
Alabama > Anniston.
Anniston (Ala.) > Social conditions.
Anniston (Ala.) > Race relations.
Anniston (Ala.) > Environmental conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

Ejemplares similares