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Is there structural racism on the internet?

  • Written by Charlton McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
imageDo people use the internet in ways that disadvantage nonwhites?magic pictures/shutterstock.com

The racial inequalities afflicting Americans and our society today are in many ways a result of the result of spatial segregation. White people and nonwhite people tend to live in different neighborhoods, go to different schools and have dramatically...

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