Valerie Hawkins Review of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
2 min readJun 10, 2020
I wrote this review of Harriet A. Washington’s Hachette/Little, Brown Spark publication, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind for Booklist magazine in 2019. It wasn’t published. But this is what I wrote.
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind. Washington, Harriet A. (author). July 2019. 368 pages. Little, Brown Spark, hardcover, $28 978–0–316–50943–5…