Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence, And The Moral Life Of The Inner City

Anderson Elijah

ISBN 10: 0393320782 / ISBN 13: 9780393320787

Published by Norton Agency Titles, New York, 2000

About this Item

352 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Seller Inventory # 212282

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence, And The Moral Life Of The Inner City
• Publisher: Norton Agency Titles, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393320782
• ISBN 13: 9780393320787
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non Fiction

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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.