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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Sep 17th, 2000
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.24in - 5.47in - 0.81in - 0.85lb
- EAN: 9780393320787
- Categories: • Sociology - Urban• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl
About the Author
Anderson, Elijah: - Elijah Anderson is Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. His most prominent works include the award-winning books Code of the Street and Streetwise.
Praise for this book
Eloquent and moving.... A strikingly powerful work that rings with urgency.--Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here
This is the best treatment we have of the tormented inner life of young people wrestling with nihilism in a society indifferent to their plight and predicament.--Cornel West
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 space.-- "New York Times Book Review"
Important.... [Anderson] demonstrates, time and again, how optimism, ambition and decency can sprout in the most unlikely places, given even the slimmest chance.-- "Newsweek"