The
COSMOPOLITAN
CANOPY
Race and Civility
in Everyday Life
ELIJAH ANDERSON
TET w.w. Norton & Company New York: TondoCopyright’ 2011 by Ebjah Anderson
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‘The cosmopolitan canopy : race und civility in
‘everyday life / Fljah Anderson — Ist ed.
pen,
telations. 5. Afvican Amerieans~Social conditions 1975
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For my jriend and teacher, Howie
aha Howard 8. Becker| CONTENTS
Map of Philadelphia
| Preface
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”
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
‘Notes
Bibliography
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