Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University speaks about "White Space, Black Space, and Civility in Everyday Life." Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, was published by WW Norton in 2011. Professor Anderson is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award of the American Sociological Association and the 2017 recipient of the Merit Award of the Eastern Sociological Society.