| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice. By Eileen McGurty. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xiv, 204 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-3966-9.)

Eileen McGurty's Transforming Environmentalism gives a detailed analysis of the legislation and policy decisions connected with plans to build a hazardous waste landfill in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1978; the predominantly African American county was one of the poorest in North Carolina. Community protests, previously dismissed as selfish expressions of "Not In My Backyard" (NIMBY) mentality, mutated into something more: a call for environmental justice. This new conception was based on the realization that environmental risks—poor air, polluted water, buried toxic chemicals—were distributed unequally, with poor and minority communities most often bearing the burden.

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