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

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner CityInner 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/2000
ISBN: 9780393320787
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.47w x 0.81d