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The Phi Beta Kappa society Visiting Scholar Professor Elijah Anderson lecture: The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life
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Wed, Apr 1, 2026
7 PM – 9 PM EDT (GMT-4)
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We are very lucky this year to welcome Professor Elijah Anderson, the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of Black Studies at Yale University as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.
Professor Anderson will give a public lecture entitled “The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life”
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A major feature of American cities is the mix of pleasant, racially mixed public spaces where comity is the norm. I have conceptualized these areas as “the cosmopolitan canopy,” a metaphor for civil society that manifests as islands of racial civility in otherwise segregated spaces. These canopies attract people of various races, ethnicities, gender, sexualities, and religions. By and large, all are welcome. Ultimately, these setting double as safe spaces that edify and encourage people with everyday lessons in racial tolerance.
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Elijah Anderson
Sterling Professor of Sociology and of Black Studies at Yale University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijah-anderson-35a6239/
Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of Black Studies at Yale University.
Professor Anderson is a Stockholm Prize laureate for his pioneering research in the field of Criminology and one of the leading urban ethnographers and cultural theorists in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association's Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003); The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life (2011). Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work, Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2022. Professor Anderson is the recipient of the 2017 Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and three prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association, including the 2013 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, the 2018 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the 2021 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Co-hosted with: Sociology, Africana Studies, Anthropology (OWNER), Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies