Code of the Street
by Elijah Anderson
2020-12-30 00:33:51
Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.âJonathan 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 inne...
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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.âJonathan 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 rulesâbased largely on an individual's ability to command respectâis 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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