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Book: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Code of the Streets: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City
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.
Posted by RBMF on March 5, 2005 10:41 AM | Permalink
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