Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner CityUnsparing 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. |
Contents
| 9 | |
| 15 | |
Decent and Street Families ཙརྱེདྡནྣཱ ུ Chapter 2 Campaigning for Respect | 66 |
Drugs Violence and Street Crime | 107 |
The Mating Game | 142 |
The Decent Daddy | 179 |
The Black InnerCity Grandmother in Transition | 206 |
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City Elijah Anderson No preview available - 1999 |
Code of the Street: Decency Violence And The Moral Life Of The Inner City Elijah Anderson No preview available - 2000 |
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