Bridging the racial divide on the internet

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5362, 1998, Pages 390-391

  Hoffman, Donna L ^a   Novak, Thomas P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERNET; NEGRO; NOTE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIETY; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032540435     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5362.390     Document Type: Note

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