Cosmopolitan Canopy : Race and Civility in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780393071634 | 0393071634
Edition: 00Format: Hardcover
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 3/17/2011
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Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the Street , Elijah Anderson takes us back to Philadelphia, exploring urban islands of civility he calls "cosmopolitan canopies." With compelling, meticulous descriptions of public spaces such as 30th Street Station, Reading Terminal Market, and Rittenhouse Square, and quasi-public places like the modern-day workplace, Anderson provides a rich narrative account of how all kinds of people-from gentrifiers to the homeless, cabdrivers to doormen-go about meeting the demands of everyd... MORE
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