The cosmopolitan canopy race and civility in everyday life /
A Yale sociology professor discusses how everyday people meet the demands of urban living through islands of civility he calls "cosmopolitan canopies" and describes how activities carried out under this canopy can ease racial tensions and promote harmony.
| Main Author: | Anderson, Elijah. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
[2011]
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 318 pages : 1 map ; 22 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- A Center City walking tour
- The Reading Terminal : a cosmopolitan canopy
- The Gallery Mall : the ghetto downtown
- Rittenhouse Square : the practice of civility
- The color line and the canopy
- Ethnos and cosmos
- The Black middle class in public
- The "nigger moment".