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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
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Product Description Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.―Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) 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. Review 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 About the Author Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. From The Washington Post Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.
