Environmental Racism & Its Assault On The American Mind - 49:52

It’s A Matter of Life and Death: Environmental Racism and Its Assault On The American Mind
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Harriet A. Washington, has been 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 and now A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

Don't miss the Harriet Washington (#MedicalApartheid) speaking about her new book A Terrible Thing to Waste.   We’re basically operating in a sea — like a witch’s brew — of industrial chemicals that are poisonous and are weakening our cognition... "When lead was found to be devastatingly harmful... whites were able to go to the suburbs to housing that had never been exposed to lead... But black people were not allowed to move into suburbs." -- Harriet A. Washington.  Building Bridges brings you a powerful and indispensable program for everyone who cares about a just and healthy future for all people.   Harriet Washington asks the critical questions that get at the heart of racism and inequality in health, income social welfare, and power in twenty-first-century America.

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