Technology segregation is an ongoing practice within early childhood programs in the United States. This research, which includes two qualitative studies in the Northeast, reveals that school segregation and technology segregation are one in the same. Utilizing critical race theory, as the theoretical framework, this research finds that young Black children are denied technological access directly affecting their learning trajectories. PTO fundraising and other monetary donations to public schools vary by district and neighborhood and are based on segregation. Therefore, structural racism flourishes within these early childhood programs as black students are excluded from another important content area and practice. This book defines the problem of technology segregation in terms of policy, racial hierarchies, funding, residential segregation, and the digital divide. It challenges the racist framework and reveals disruptions (strategies) to counter this deficit discourse based on white supremacy.

Miriam Tager is assistant professor of early childhood education at Westfield State University.

Chapter One: Introduction to Two Different WorldsChapter Two: Residential Segregation = School SegregationChapter Three: Segregated Schooling: Separate and Still UnequalChapter Four: Technology Infrastructure and the Digital DivideChapter Five: Technology and WhitenessChapter Six: Money Matters: All about School FundingChapter Seven: Oppressive PoliciesChapter Eight: Methods of Disruption