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16. Overburdened Bodies and Lands: Industrial Development and Environmental Injustice in South Baltimore

From the book Baltimore Revisited

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813594057-018
19716Overburdened Bodies and LandsIndustrial Development and Environmental Injustice in South BaltimoreNICOLE FABRICANTDestiny Watford—a founding member of Free Your Voice, a youth-led activ-ist group focused on human rights—faced a group of fifteen undergraduate stu-dents from my anthropology course at Towson University who had traveled to South Baltimore on July 16, 2015.1 Pointing to the postindustrial landscape, she told them that this community used to be called Fairfield. During her speech, she shared a report from the Baltimore Sun that described the 1984 chemical explosion on the Fairfield peninsula that sent fourteen people—ten from a nearby elementary school—to the hospital. Principal Anne C. Fuller of Vic-tory Elementary School described a mushroom-cloud-like explosion near the school that she indicated looked like “Hiroshima.” “This blast,” Destiny told the group of students, “was the second major incident at the Essex industrial facility in less than a year.” Thirty years later, similar catastrophes are still tak-ing place. On Christmas Eve in 2015, at the Solvay Industry Plant on Fairfield Road, a storage tank containing 400,000 gallons of sulfuric acid collapsed, sending a wave of corrosive pollutants into a creek that abuts a densely populated
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From the book
Baltimore Revisited
Baltimore Revisited

Chapters in this book (35)

Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Why Revisit Baltimore Now?
Part I. Place and Power: Roots of (In)Justice in the City
1. The City That Eats: Food and Power in Baltimore’s Early Public Markets
2. “Shove Those Black Clouds Away!”: Jim Crow Schools and Jim Crow Neighborhoods in Baltimore before Brown
3. “The Pot”: Criminalizing Black Neighborhoods in Jim Crow Baltimore
4. Vacant Houses and Inequality in Baltimore from the Nineteenth Century to Today
5. A Psychology of Place: Race, Violence, and Community in Baltimore
6. Community Health and Baltimore Apartheid: Revisiting Development, Inequality, and Tax Policy
Part II. Histories of Contestation and Activism in a Legacy City
7. The Riot Environment: Sanitation, Recreation, and Pacification in the Wake of Baltimore’s 1968 Uprising
8. “The People’s Side of the Road”: Movement against Destruction and Organizing across Lines of Race, Class, and Neighborhood
9. More Than a Store: Activist Businesses in Baltimore
10. “Welfare Isn’t a Single Issue”: Baltimore’s Welfare Rights Movement, 1960s–1980s
11. The Last Censors: The Life and Slow Death of Maryland’s Board of Motion Picture Censors, 1916–1981
12. “Temple of the Drama” The Five-Year Protest at Ford’s Theater, 1947–1952
Part III. Voices from Here: Listening to the Past
13. “Because They Were Also Downed People”: Black-Jewish Relationships in Baltimore during the 1968 Uprising and Beyond
14. (snapshot) Korean Communities in Baltimore
15. The Lumbee Community: Revisiting the Reservation of Baltimore’s Fells Point
16. Overburdened Bodies and Lands: Industrial Development and Environmental Injustice in South Baltimore
17. Finding Closure: The Poets of the Sparrows Point Steel Mill
18. Baltimore’s Socialist Feminists—Lessons from Then, Lessons for Now: Community Empowerment and Urban Collectives in the 1970s
19. Relentlessly Gay: A Conversation on LGBTQ Stories in Baltimore
Part IV. Surviving in the Neoliberal City: Redevelopment in Baltimore
20. Johns Hopkins University and the History of Developing East Baltimore
21. Image and Infrastructure: Making Baltimore a Tourist City
22. Skywalk: The Life and Death of Multilevel Urbanism in Downtown Baltimore
23. Rethinking Gentrification in Baltimore, Sharp Leadenhall
24. The Superblock: A Downtown Development Debacle, 2003–2015
25. Under Armour’s Global Headquarters and the Redevelopment of South Baltimore
Part V. Democratizing the Archives
26. Social History in the Archives: Baltimore’s Enduring Legacy
27. Building a More Inclusive History of Baltimore: Preserving the Baltimore Uprising
Afterword: Weaving Knowledges
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
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