One of the nation’s leading urban ethnographers, Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University, will examine “the cosmopolitan canopy”—a major feature of the American city and a metaphor for civil society that represents virtual islands of racial civility, where people of various racial and ethnic backgrounds, for the most part, get along. In this talk, Dr. Anderson will explore the sociological underpinnings of this phenomenon, the factors that encourage it, and those that contribute to its breakdown.

Open to the public.

Sponsored by the Dean of Faculty, Africana Studies, American Studies, Political Science, and Latin American & Latinx Studies.