{"product_id":"baptized-in-pcbs-ellen-griffith-spears-9781482970166","title":"Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpears 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen Griffith Spears\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1482970163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781482970166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Ellen Griffith Spears","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48458736402687,"sku":"9781482970166","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e6ec649-8745-44b1-a542-5cf021e9e701.jpg?v=1777406301","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/baptized-in-pcbs-ellen-griffith-spears-9781482970166","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}