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  • Washington, Harriet A.
     
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  • Environmental justice.
     
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  • Racism -- History.
     
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  • Intelligence levels.
     
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  • Intelligence levels -- Social aspects.
     
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  • United States -- Environmental conditions -- Social aspects.
     
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    A terrible thing to waste : environmental racism and its assault on the American mind / Harriet A. Washington.
    by Washington, Harriet A.
    New York ; Boston ; London : Little, Brown Spark, 2019.
    Subjects
  • Environmental justice.
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  • Racism -- History.
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  • Intelligence levels.
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  • Intelligence levels -- Social aspects.
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  • United States -- Environmental conditions -- Social aspects.
  • Description: 
    360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    Edition: 
    First edition.
    Contents: 
    Introduction: IQ matters -- Part I: Color-coded intelligence? The prism of race : how politics shroud the truth about our nation's IQ -- Part II: The brain thieves. The lead age : heavy metals, low IQs -- Poisoned world : the racial gradient of environmental neurotoxins -- Prenatal policies : protecting the developing brain -- Bugs in the system : how microbes sap U.S. intelligence -- Part III: Mission possible : how to bolster the nation's IQ. Taking the cure : what can you do, now? -- A wonderful thing to save : how communities can unite to preserve brainpower -- Glossary -- List of known chemical brain drainers.
    ISBN: 
    9780316509435
    0316509434
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