Lecture with Elijah Anderson: “Being Black in White Space”

Join us November 10 at 4:15 for “Being Black in White Space,” an online lecture with Professor Elijah Anderson.

Register at https://elijah-anderson-bates.eventbrite.com

Professor Anderson is Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. His most recent publication is Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life (2022). His other publications include 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; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003). Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, was published by WW Norton in 2011. 

Thank you to all of the programs and departments sponsoring this event.