A Terrible Thing to Waste by Harriet A. Washington

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. This item is available to borrow from 1library branch. Washingtonrepresents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. 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. Randy Cohen, host of Person Place Thing and original author of New York Times Magazines The Ethicist column ' A Terrible Thing to Waste is a powerful and indispensable book for anyone who cares about a just and healthy future for all Americans. The item A terrible thing to waste : environmental racism and its assault on the American mind, 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. Harriet Washington asks the critical questions that get at the heart of racism and inequality in health, income, social welfare and power in 21st century America. From injuries caused by lead poisoning to. Now, in A Terrible Thing to Waste, award-winning science writer Harriet A. A Terrible Thing to Waste is a powerful and indispensable book for anyone who cares about a just and healthy future for all Americans. A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind.

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.

A Terrible Thing to Waste by Harriet A. Washington