{"id":895,"date":"2018-03-08T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/?page_id=895"},"modified":"2018-04-04T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:34:41","slug":"acclaimed-ethnographer-receives-william-julius-wilson-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/acclaimed-ethnographer-receives-william-julius-wilson-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed ethnographer receives William Julius Wilson Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Acclaimed ethnographer receives William Julius Wilson Award<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n
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William Julius Wilson (left) visited WSU to introduce Elijah Anderson\u2014a renowned ethnographer who received the William Julius Wilson Award for the Advancement of Social Justice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Acclaimed ethnographer and Yale University sociology professor Elijah Anderson was the recipient of the 2017 William Julius Wilson Award for the Advancement of Social Justice.<\/p>\n

Both Anderson and the award\u2019s namesake, WSU graduate and Harvard University professor William Julius Wilson, visited WSU Pullman for the ceremony, which took place at the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center.<\/p>\n

Anderson is a distinguished urban ethnographer whose seminal works include A Place on the Corner <\/em>(1978), Streetwise <\/em>(1990), <\/em>and Code of the Street <\/em>(1999). These works illuminate the dynamics and struggles of life in racially segregated inner cities.<\/p>\n

Wilson introduced Anderson and lauded his clear and persuasive writing and unique method of collecting data through participant observation. Wilson also noted that WSU professor emeritus Jim Short\u2014who was in attendance\u2014wrote a blurb for the dust jacket of A Place on the Corner. <\/em><\/p>\n

Anderson spoke about his newest book, Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life<\/em>. This work examines how people from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds gather in certain urban spaces under a metaphorical canopy. This canopy\u2014under which different races eat, shop, and coexist\u2014is fairly harmonious.<\/p>\n

But Anderson also noted how perceived \u201ccolor lines\u201d under the canopy can still be reinforced\u2014especially when considering how African Americans navigate those spaces. Often, African Americans under the canopy must show that the stereotypes associated with the \u201ciconic ghetto\u201d do not apply to them. According to Anderson, this shows a striking \u201cdeficit of credibility\u201d that black residents are forced to overcome under the canopy.<\/p>\n

Following his talk, Anderson took questions on broader topics related to race in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Past recipients of the William Julius Wilson Award for the Advancement of Social Justice\u2014which awarded biennially\u2014include television producer and journalist David Simon, sociologist Robert Sampson, and prison advocate and forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni.<\/p>\n

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Acclaimed ethnographer receives William Julius Wilson Award Acclaimed ethnographer and Yale University sociology professor Elijah Anderson was the recipient of the 2017 William Julius Wilson Award for the Advancement of Social Justice. Both Anderson and the award\u2019s namesake, WSU graduate and Harvard University professor William Julius Wilson, visited WSU Pullman for the ceremony, which took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/895\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}