The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life

Author:   Elijah Anderson (Yale University)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
ISBN:  

9780393340518


Pages:   338
Publication Date:   08 June 2012
Format:   Paperback
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The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life


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Elijah Anderson, called ""one of our best urban ethnographers"" by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the ""cosmopolitan canopy"": the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves.

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Author:   Elijah Anderson (Yale University)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780393340518


ISBN 10:   0393340511
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   08 June 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Vintage Elijah Anderson original, creative, engaging, and thought-provoking . . . . This book is a must-read. --William Julius Wilson, Harvard University


The most important book on race relations in many years.--Randall Collins, president, American Sociological Association


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Elijah Anderson is Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. His most prominent works include the award-winning books Code of the Street and Streetwise. He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia.

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