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DESCRIPTION:FREE tickets for Zoom Webinar or Facebook Live go on sale Octob
 er 6 at 9am. Registration encouraged. Click here to register.\n\n \n\nThe 
 1994 publication of The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted
  the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of a renew
 ed and heated debate. Now\, in A Terrible Thing to Waste\, award-winning s
 cience 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 f
 or tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intel
 ligence as an inherited trait\, using copious data that instead point to a
  different cause of the reported African American-white IQ gap: environmen
 tal racism - a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that r
 elegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic
  waste\, pollution\, and insufficient sanitation services. She investigate
 s heavy metals\, neurotoxins\, deficient prenatal care\, bad nutrition\, a
 nd even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why 
 communities of color are disproportionately affected -- and what can be do
 ne to remedy this devastating problem.\n\n \n\nHarriet A. Washington has b
 een the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Insti
 tute\, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School\, and
  a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskege
 e 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.\n\n \n\nPresented in partnership with CityLit Project.\
 n\n \n\nSend questions for Harriet Washington to events@prattlibrary.org b
 y October 19\, to be answered during the live program.\n\n \n\nASL interpr
 etation will be available to attendees.\n\n \n\nVisit https://www.theivybo
 okshop.com/ to order your copy of A Terrible Thing to Waste.\n\n\n \nThe B
 rown Lecture Series is supported by the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Found
 ation.
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SUMMARY:Brown Lecture Series: Harriet Washington\, A Terrible Thing to Wast
 e: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
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