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Third Annual Violette De Mazia Lecture
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Syrian refugees meet their Lower Northeast neighbors at Reading Terminal Market
MICHAEL BRYANT / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Syrian refugee Abeer Bdaiwi samples chipotle that chef Jack McDavid (left) used. by Michael Matza, Staff Writer @MichaelMatza1 | mmatza@phillynews.com The date had been on the calendar for months: Two dozen Syrian refugees,...
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The Cosmopolitan Canopy: How can cities like Milwaukee break down ethnic and racial barriers?
Much has been made of Milwaukee being one of, if not the most, racially segregated cities in the country. And yet a quick glance at a map of resident ethnicity confirms there are a number of places where diverse populations mix. Yale professor Elijah Anderson explores...
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Is Yale a “White Space” or a Cosmopolitan Canopy
Elijah Anderson on Race Relations and Public Space: Beyond the Primacy of the Street
The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, by Elijah Anderson New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 2012. 318pp. $17.95 paper. ISBN:97803933 Mitchell Duneier Princeton University mduneier@Princeton.edu Were a future historian to turn to the...
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The Iconic Ghetto
Excerpt from Emmett and Trayvon Read by Joe Looby Iconic Ghetto-2- 1-16-2013...
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Racial Harmony in the City – Inner Compass
Calvin College Video Interview In some cities, pockets of serenity can be found where people of many races find themselves mingling and enjoying each other’s presence. Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson, author of The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday...
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The Cosmopolitan Canopy and Trayvon Martin: Racial Faultlines in American Society
Professor Elijah Anderson, the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University, will deliver a lecture on his recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. May 4, 2012 6:30 p.m. The racial incorporation process...
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Teaching for Change’s Busboys and Poets Bookstore welcomes Elijah Anderson
Author Elijah Anderson, “The Cosmopolitan Canopy” 14th & V | Langston Room | April 26,2012 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Teaching for Change's Busboys and Poets Bookstore welcomes Elijah Anderson to discuss and sign his new book, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility...
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IJURR Lecture: THE COSMOPOLITAN CANOPY: Civility Amid the Faultlines of American Race Relations
Professor Elijah Anderson will be the 2012 IJURR Lecturer at the Association of American Geographers, Saturday 25 February 2012 at the Gramercy Suite B, Second Floor, Hilton New York. Followed by a post-lecture drinks reception. All welcome! 2012 IJURR Lecture at the...
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