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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, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011], ©2011.
- Supplementary Content
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Description
- xvii, 318 pages : 1 map; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- 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".
- ISBN
- 9780393071634 (hbk.)
- 0393071634 (hbk.)
- 9780393340518 (pbk.)
- 0393340511 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2010044411
- OCLC
- ocn601108100
- SCSB-9869796
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries