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Coles Baptized PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice an All-American Town at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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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 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.
Spears 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.
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.
Spears 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.
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