The computer race goes to class: How computers in schools helped shape the racial topography of the internet

Race in Cyberspace

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 191-212

  Sterne, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203949696-15     Document Type: Chapter

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