Hollywood and the news media have repeatedly depicted the inner-city retail store as a scene of racial conflict and acrimony. Civility in the City uncovers a qu

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A Yale sociology professor discusses how everyday people meet the demands of urban living through islands of civility he calls "cosmopolitan canopies" and descr

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The first history of racial injustice to examine how civility and white supremacy are linked, and a call for citizens who care about social justice to abandon c