Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Anderson, Elijah

ISBN 10: 0393320782 / ISBN 13: 9780393320787

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Seller Inventory # 0393320782-3-30332109

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and ...
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good