The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life
- ISBN-10
- 0393340511
- ISBN-13
- 9780393340518
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-12
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Elijah Anderson
Description
Elijah Anderson, called "one of our best urban ethnographers" by the , introduces the concept of the "cosmopolitan canopy": the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves.
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