| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Back Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Welcome to Epa: Consider Yourself an Honorary White Man; 2 The Fourth Un World Conference on Women, Beijing: "Call Me Bella"; 3 Ultimatum to Public Service; 4 The Gore-Mbeki Commission: The Sound That Freedom Makes; 5 Alexandra: The Sacrifice Zone; 6 Who Are You Calling a Necklacer?; "Sleep"; 7 Why Waste Mit on People Like That?; 8 My Name Is Jacob Ngakane; 9 Back to Mit; 10 Breathing College Air; 11 Barnard College: The Path Sisters Take; 12 Mit: The Vortex of Minds and Hearts |
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13 Ethiopia: The Good Mother14 Retaliation at Epa; 15 Something Deeper Than Words; "Something Deeper Than Words"; 16 President of the United States: The Playbook; 17 Last Obstacle to the End Run; "Love Will Bring Me Forth"; 18 Yes, Clarice; "The Sacrifice Zone"; 19 The 1998 Trip to South Africa: My Tongue Is Green; "The Registry of Man"; 20 Death Threats and Missed Opportunities; 21 Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol M. Browner; 22 Betrayal Is Best Served Cold; 23 Discrimination or Disappointment?; "Waiting"; 24 The Verdict; 25 Can You Hear Me?; 26 Behind Closed Doors: The Browner-Naacp Meeting |
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27 Congressional Hearings: Intolerance at Epa"Today I'm Gray"; 28 A Call to History; 29 Journey to No Fear; 30 Al Sharpton: The X Factor; 31 Vanadium; 32 Breathing African Air; Postscript: Giants and Grasshoppers; "Like a Landscape from the Book of Time"; Afterword; Endnotes; Bibliography; Appendix: Legislative Stages to the No Fear Public Law; Index |
| Summary |
Retracing the steps of the first civil rights and whistleblower act of the 21st century, this chronicle follows young, black, MIT-educated social scientist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, shortly after she landed her dream job at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The account illustrates how the author attempted to convince the government to investigate allegations surrounding a multinational corporation, suspecting that they were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans who were mining vanadium, a vital strategic mineral. Documenting Coleman-Adebayo's shocking discovery that the EPA itself was the first line of defense for the corporation in question, this record depicts how the agency stonewalled, prompting the author to expose them. The agency's brutal retaliation is captured in detail, revealing their use of every racist and sexist trick in their playbook, costing the protagonist her career, endangering her family, and sacrificing more lives in the vanadium mines of South Africa. Finishing on a hopeful note, the recollection concludes with the upwelling of support the author received from others in the federal bureaucracy, detailing how her subsequent grassroots struggle to protect future whistleblowers ended in victory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Coleman-Adebayo, Marsha.
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| SUBJECT |
Coleman-Adebayo, Marsha fast |
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency -- Trials, litigation, etc
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United States. Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002.
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency fast |
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Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (United States) fast |
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Political scientists -- United States -- Biography
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African American political scientists -- United States -- Biography
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Whistle blowing -- United States
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Vanadium industry -- Corrupt practices -- South Africa
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Social responsibility of business.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
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African American political scientists
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Employees
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Political scientists
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Social responsibility of business
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Whistle blowing
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South Africa
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011016723 |
| ISBN |
9781569769379 |
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1569769370 |
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9781569769393 |
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1569769397 |
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