Dr. Elizabeth Blum, a Troy University associate professor of history, digs past conventional accounts of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history in her book “Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class and Gender in Environmental Activism.” She will be signing copies of the newly published book 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. Friday, May 9 at Barnes & Noble on the Troy Campus. (TROY photo/Kevin Glackmeyer)

Troy University professor’s book looks at race, class and gender at Love Canal

TROY – For Troy University associate professor of history Dr. Elizabeth Blum, a toxic waste-riddled neighborhood in New York state says a lot about environmentalism.

Blum, author of the newly published “Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class and Gender in Environmental Activism,” shows the activists at Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., were diverse and that much more than toxins lurked beneath the surface in the neighbor’s struggle to gain relocation.

On May 9, she will be the featured author at a Barnes & Noble Campus Bookstores book signing event from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. on the Troy Campus. Spring Commencement begins at 10:30 a.m. in Sartain Hall. The book, published by University Press of Kansas, will be available for purchase at the bookstore.

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