Love Canal Revisited Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism

Name: Love Canal Revisited Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism
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ISBN: 9780700618200

ISBN-10: 0700618201

ISBN-13: 9780700618200

Edition: 2008

Authors: Elizabeth D. Blum

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Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation's consciousness, the media focused on a working-class white woman named Lois Gibbs, who gained prominence as an activist fighting to save families from the poison buried beneath their homes. Her organization, the Love Canal Homeowners Association, challenged big government and big business-and ultimately won relocation. But as Elizabeth Blum now shows, the activists at Love Canal were a very diverse lot. Blum reveals that more lurks beneath the surface of this story than most people realize-and more than mere toxins. She takes readers…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 3/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English