The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life

by Elijah Anderson

Book Overview

Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the Street, sociologist Elijah Anderson introduces the concept of the "cosmopolitan canopy"--the urban island of civility that exists amidst the ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves where segregation is the norm. Under the cosmopolitan canopy, diverse peoples come together, and for the most part practice getting along. Anderson's path-breaking study of this setting provides a new understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393071634
• ISBN13: 9780393071634
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"