Elijah Anderson, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Guest Lecture
You are invited to hear Dr. Elijah Anderson speak about race & civility in everyday life. This event is free and open to the public. If you are a Butler Student, it can also count toward your BCR credits.
The topic of this lecture is "The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race & Civility in Everyday Life." This lecture will explore Anderson's concept of a "cosmopolitan canopy." The "cosmopolitan canopy" acts as a metaphor for civil society manifesting as islands of racial civility in otherwise segreated spaces. Ultimately, these settings bring together people of different races, genders, sexualities, and religions, offering safe spaces that typically encourages civility, connection, understanding, and everyday lessons in racial tolerance.
Dr. Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of Black Studies at Yale University, and a Stockholm Prize Laureate in Criminology. His most recent publications are “Black Success, White Backlash,” (The Atlantic, November 2023), an introduction to a new edition of W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Philadelphia Negro (The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), and “The Fault Lines of Race and Space”: an interview by Jelani Cobb, published online in Vital City on 4/28. Other publications include “The Benevolent Despot” in the DuBois Handbook (forthcoming from Oxford University Press); Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life (2022); 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; the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003); and The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, (2011).
