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Required reading two of three below.
DuBois, W. E. B. 1994 (orig. 1903). The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Dover.
Jacobs, Jane. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage.
Anderson, Elijah. 2011 The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. New York: W. W. Norton and Co.
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If we were to turn to the many sociological pieces of literature of the past years to
understand how people of different races lived in the urban area, they would be surprised. The
nature of their socialization and the extent to which blacks and whites interacted along racial
lines does not make any sense. Several ethnographic research conducted by different sociologists
in the past didn’t give the actual image of the segregation and social isolation of races in the
United States. Elijah Anderson has an argument concerning race and civility that reflect back to
the ancient times while Du Bois’ argument tends to dwell on the issue of race. However, the
argument of the two scholars is on the question of race and ethnicities and what they believe. The
question of ethnography has been subject to discussion by different sociologists. This paper tries
to argue the opinions of the two theorists concerning the question of race and ethnicity.
Anderson’s visit to the contemporary Philadelphia tries to explain how people have
ebraced the pluralistic social difference with the help of the “canopies.” He argues how over the
years, people have lived in ways that challenge the ancient modes of inequality. He describes
how the spaces in the cities have created spaces where people are familiar with the neutral
ground that gives the opportunity to all, both white and black, to interact and change how they
view members of other social groups. On the other hand, Du Bois’s argument contradicts Elijah
Anderson’s point of view. He tries to portray the struggles and experiences of the African
Americans. Through his identity, he walks the readers through The concept of “the veil...