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Meehan, Mary Beth, and Fred Turner. "Book Release! Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America (University of Chicago Press, 2021)."
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Book Release! Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (RISE) AND Program Evaluation

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It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by race, class, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation, and while its billionaires live in compounds, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences, its service workers live in …

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