Code of the Street

Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Elijah Anderson (Yale University)

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English

WW Norton & Co
08 January 2010

Urban communities; Black & Asian studies; Social theory

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.

By: Elijah Anderson (Yale University)
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 395g
ISBN: 9780393320787
ISBN 10: 0393320782
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 08 January 2010
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elijah Anderson is Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. His most prominent works include the award-winning books Code of the Street and Streetwise.

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

""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 ""One of our best ethnographers.... Anderson is excellent in explaining how the criminal element, through a numerical minority, comes to dominate public space."" -- New York Times Book Review ""Important.... [Anderson] demonstrates, time and again, how optimism, ambition and decency can sprout in the most unlikely places, given even the slimmest chance."" -- Newsweek ""Eloquent and moving.... A strikingly powerful work that rings with urgency."" -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here ""This is the best treatment we have of the tormented inner life of young people wrestling with nihilism in a society indifferent to their plight and predicament."" -- Cornel West