Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
- ISBN-10
- 0393070387
- ISBN-13
- 9780393070385
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-09-17
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Elijah Anderson
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.
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