The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life - Elijah Anderson

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An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the workings of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America. 256 p. 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.