A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind - Softcover

Washington, Harriet A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316509442 ISBN 13: 9780316509442

Verlag: Little, Brown Spark, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

A powerful indictment of the notion of hereditary intelligence, A Terrible Thing to Waste shows how environmental racism drives the black-white IQ gap and explains what can be done to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.

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Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, and a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law. She has held fellowships at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown Spark
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0316509442
• ISBN 13: 9780316509442
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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