1. Making the cosmopolitan canopy in Boston's Haymarket Square.
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Kallman, Meghan Elizabeth
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CULTURAL pluralism , *COSMOPOLITANISM , *SOCIAL classes , *ETHNIC relations , *CONSUMERS , *ITALIAN Americans , *INTERETHNIC friendship , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history ,HAYMARKET Square (Boston, Mass.) - Abstract
Using ethnographic data on Boston's Haymarket Square, this paper demonstrates how public space and a market opportunity can generate solidarity among people of different ethnicities in the form of a cosmopolitan canopy, and how a single ethnic tradition can nurture an open, public multi-ethnic environment. The paper illustrates how Haymarket vendors' treatment of ethnic and racial difference is actively deployed in the construction of new groups that largely transcend such distinctions. This article outlines the mechanisms by which a cosmopolitan canopy is sustained, and how it serves a constructive social function within the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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