Cosmopolitan Canopy: Elijah Anderson

Elijah Anderson, leading sociologist of the Black urban experience, visits the Writers Institute this coming Tuesday, April 26, to talk about his new book, The Cosmopolitan Canopy (2011).

Sudhir Venkatesh gives an in-depth review in Slate:

"This is timely terrain, and it is sociology at its finest. There are few writers openly exploring this undercurrent of hostility and self-doubt experienced by a historically subjugated group that just managed to elect one of their own as president. Not since DuBois' impassioned declaration a century ago, that black Americans had a 'double consciousness,' have we seen such sharp use of social analysis for truth-telling." More.