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The cosmopolitan canopy : race and civility in everyday life

Title
The cosmopolitan canopy : race and civility in everyday life / Elijah Anderson.
Author
Anderson, Elijah.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.

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Description
xvii, 318 p. : map; 22 cm.
Subject
  • City and town life > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  • Gentrification > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  • African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States > Ethnic relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-303) and index.
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" -- Conclusion.
Call Number
Sc D 11-608
ISBN
  • 9780393071634
  • 0393071634
LCCN
2010044411
OCLC
2010044411
Author
Anderson, Elijah.
Title
The cosmopolitan canopy : race and civility in everyday life / Elijah Anderson.
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-303) and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 11-608
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