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African Americans in the U.S. computing sciences workforce

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An exploration of the education-to-work pipeline.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 7
          July 2015
          102 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2797100
          • Editor:
          • Moshe Y. Vardi
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