Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
ISBN-13:
9780393320787
ISBN-10:
0393320782
Edition:
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Author:
Elijah Anderson
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393320787
ISBN-10:
0393320782
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Elijah Anderson
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
Summary
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (ISBN-13: 9780393320787 and ISBN-10: 0393320782), written by authors
Elijah Anderson, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2000.
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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.
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