Summary Of The Cosmopolitan Canopy By Elijah Anderson

The Cosmopolitan canopy is written by Elijah Anderson, and is about race and ethnic relations. In this novel, Elijah Anderson explains how the “canopies” that he explores in contemporary Philadelphia support pluralistic embrace of social difference most readily. Over the span of an astounding thirty years of observation, Anderson attempts to convey an image of how people “live race”, in ways that challenge old form`s of inequality. This book relates to Racial and Ethnic relations because it shows what racial and ethnic groups such as African-Americans dealt with during this time in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Anderson describes spaces in the city where people characterized by wide a range of social differences interact in a familiar way on neutral