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

Anderson, Elijah

 
9780393320787: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Sinossi

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Elijah Anderson is Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. His most prominent works include the award-winning books Code of the Street and Streetwise. He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia.

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9780393040234: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

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ISBN 10:  0393040232 ISBN 13:  9780393040234
Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999
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