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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Elijah Anderson
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Description for Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Paperback. Unsparing and important.. An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSL3; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 404.
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules-based largely on an individual's ability to command respect-is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope. ... Read more
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules-based largely on an individual's ability to command respect-is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
403g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393320787
SKU
V9780393320787
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About Elijah Anderson
Elijah Anderson holds the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. His most prominent works include the award-winning books Code of the Street and Streetwise. He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia.
Reviews for Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
A brilliant diagnosis of the internal factors that hold blacks back.
Wall Street Journal One of the most interesting examinations of poverty, violence and sociology to emerge in recent years.
Boston Herald One of our best ethnographers... Anderson is excellent in explaining how the criminal element, through a numerical minority, comes to dominate public ... Read more
Wall Street Journal One of the most interesting examinations of poverty, violence and sociology to emerge in recent years.
Boston Herald One of our best ethnographers... Anderson is excellent in explaining how the criminal element, through a numerical minority, comes to dominate public ... Read more