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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Elijah Anderson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black Americ
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Elijah Anderson
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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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 r
The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Elijah Anderson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-12 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A Yale sociology professor discusses how everyday people meet the demands of urban living through islands of civility he calls "cosmopolitan canopies" and descr
A Place on the Corner, Second Edition
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Elijah Anderson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah Anderson's sociological classic, a study of street corner life at a
Code of the Suburb
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Scott Jacques
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-08 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers “provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war” (Alice Goffman, auth