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

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

Elijah Anderson

352 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction race sociology reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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