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100	1		_aWashington, Harriet A., _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA Terrible Thing to Waste : _bEnvironmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York ; _aBoston ; _aLondon : _bLittle, Brown Spark, _c2019.
264		4	_c2019
300			_a360 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers. This systemic onslaught of toxic exposure and institutional negligence causes irreparable physical harm to millions of people across the country--cutting lives tragically short and needlessly burdening our health care system. But these deadly environments create another insidious and often overlooked consequence: robbing communities of color, and America as a whole, of intellectual power. The 1994 publication of The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of a renewed and heated debate. Now, in A Terrible Thing to Waste, award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the fray, arguing that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, but that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ gap: environmental racism--a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services. She investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected--and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem"--Dust jacket.
650		0	_aEnvironmental justice _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRacism _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aIntelligence levels _zUnited States.
650		7	_aMEDICAL / Public Health. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHuman ecology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00962941
650		7	_aEnvironmental policy _zUnited States. _2sears
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _92285
942			_2lcc _cBOOK
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