Audience
Started in 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars program sends distinguished speakers to chapters across the country to meet with faculty and students and to address the school. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the campus by making possible an exchange of ideas between distinguished visiting scholars and the resident faculty and students. The PBK Zeta Chapter of Maryland at St. Mary's College of Maryland is pleased to welcome Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University Dr. Elijah Anderson as its tenth PBK Visiting Scholar. He will present a public lecture "Race Relations Since the End of the Civil Rights Movement" on Thursday, September 25 at 4:40 pm in the Nancy R. and Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.
Since the end of the Civil Rights Movement, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied only by whites, though their reception has been mixed. This lecture will explore perceptions and their complexities.
Professor Anderson is a Stockholm Prize laureate for his pioneering research in the field of Criminology and one of the leading urban ethnographers and cultural theorists in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association's Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003); The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life (2011). Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work, Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2022. Professor Anderson is the recipient of the 2017 Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and three prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association, including the 2013 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, the 2018 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the 2021 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Co-sponsored by the Lecture & Fine Arts Committee and the Department of Sociology this lecture is free and open to the public.