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Elijah Anderson

Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He is the author of, among other books, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life.

Latest articles by Elijah Anderson

The Big Idea
Black Americans are asserting their rights in “white spaces.” That’s when whites call 911.Black Americans are asserting their rights in “white spaces.” That’s when whites call 911.
The Big Idea

A Yale professor explains the sociology of the living-while-black incidents.

By Elijah Anderson
The Big Idea
The sociological theory that explains Trump’s assumption that all black citizens live in the “inner city”The sociological theory that explains Trump’s assumption that all black citizens live in the “inner city”
The Big Idea

Americans have strong ideas — sometimes, subconscious — about what constitutes “white space” and “black space.”

By Elijah Anderson

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