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The cosmopolitan canopy, race and civility in everyday life, Elijah Anderson

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The cosmopolitan canopy, race and civility in everyday life, Elijah Anderson
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The cosmopolitan canopy
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bibliography
Oclc number
601108100
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Elijah Anderson
Sub title
race and civility in everyday life
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
Table Of 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."
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