The COSMOPOLITAN CANOPY Race and Civility in Everyday Life ELIJAH ANDERSON TET w.w. Norton & Company New York: TondoCopyright’ 2011 by Ebjah Anderson All rights reserved Printed in the United Seate of America Fint Edition ‘Bromtispiece photograph by Plijah Anderson. by Tom Gavin, Production manager: Devon Zahn Library of Congres Cataloging in Publication Data ‘The cosmopolitan canopy : race und civility in ‘everyday life / Fljah Anderson — Ist ed. pen, telations. 5. Afvican Amerieans~Social conditions 1975 L Tide, HeTIN5.458 2001 S07 7600748'11-—de22 OOOH W.W. Norton & Company, Ine {500 ith Avenne, New York, NX. 10110 W.-W. Norton & Company Led. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Steet, London WIT 8 1284567890 For my jriend and teacher, Howie aha Howard 8. Becker| CONTENTS Map of Philadelphia | Preface A Center City Walking Tour ‘The Reading Terminal: A Cosmopolitan Canopy ‘The Gallery Mall: The Ghetto Downtown Rittenhouse Square: The Practice of Civility The Color Line and the Canopy Ethnos and Cosmos ‘The Black Middle Class in Public ‘The “Nigger Moment” Conclusion Acknowledgments ‘Notes Bibliography | Indes: 283, 287 299 305