Code of the Street - by Elijah Anderson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This incisive book examines the code of decency, violence, and moral life of the inner city, and how it is a response to the lack of jobs, stigma of race, and rampant drug use. Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A brilliant diagnosis of the internal factors that hold blacks back.-- "Wall Street Journal"<br><br>Important.... [Anderson] demonstrates, time and again, how optimism, ambition and decency can sprout in the most unlikely places, given even the slimmest chance.-- "Newsweek"<br><br>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"<br><br>One of the most interesting examinations of poverty, violence and sociology to emerge in recent years.-- "Boston Herald"<br><br>Eloquent and moving.... A strikingly powerful work that rings with urgency.--Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here<br><br>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<br>
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