According to Elijah Anderson, the black ghetto is a major source of racial stereotypes and discrimination. He studies how it works in a context of evolving race relations.
Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist, specialist in urban ethnography and professor at Yale University. He is the author of “The Iconic Ghetto” (The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science2012) and The Cosmopolitan Canopy. Race and Civility in Everyday Life (Norton Books, 2011), listed on La Vie des Idées and Book&Ideas: Stéphane Tonnelat, America, model of civility ?December 6, 2011 & Linda Haapajärvi, Rébecca Ndour, From imaginary Africa to the emblematic suburbsJuly 3, 2013.
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