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Description
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publish Date | September 17, 2000 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780393320787 |
| Dimensions | 8.2 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
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.
Reviews
A brilliant diagnosis of the internal factors that hold blacks back.-- "Wall Street Journal"
Important.... [Anderson] demonstrates, time and again, how optimism, ambition and decency can sprout in the most unlikely places, given even the slimmest chance.-- "Newsweek"
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"
One of the most interesting examinations of poverty, violence and sociology to emerge in recent years.-- "Boston Herald"
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
Important.... [Anderson] demonstrates, time and again, how optimism, ambition and decency can sprout in the most unlikely places, given even the slimmest chance.-- "Newsweek"
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"
One of the most interesting examinations of poverty, violence and sociology to emerge in recent years.-- "Boston Herald"
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
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