The cosmopolitan canopy
Subtitle: race and civility in everyday life
By: Elijah Anderson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780393071634
Subjects: Race relations; City and town life; Gentrification; Social conditions; African Americans; Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Center City walking tour; title: The Reading Terminal : a cosmopolitan canopy; title: The Gallery Mall : the ghetto downtown; title: Rittenhouse Square : the practice of civility; title: The color line and the canopy; title: Ethnos and cosmos; title: The Black middle class in public; title: The "nigger moment".