Choice Reviews Online · 2011 · 506 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesEthnic StudiesUrban StudiesCultural GeographyUrban AnthropologyUrban SociologyEthnic EnclavesEthnic GroupsResidential SegregationUrban EthnographyUrban SegregationUrban SpaceMulticultural Urban SpaceRace In The CityRacialization Of SpaceRacialized GeographiesSegregated SettlementsUrban CosmopolitanismUrban Ethnic EnclavesUrban Ethnic Space
Elijah Anderson, called one of our best urban ethnographers by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the cosmopolitan canopy: the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves.