Elijah Anderson

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 rulesbased largely on an individual's ability to command respectis 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393070385
• Artikelnr.: 59592341

Autorenporträt

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. He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia.