Code of the Street : Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
ISBN: 9780393320787 | 0393320782
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 9/17/2000
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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 rampant drug use. Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award.
Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.'”Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)
Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.'”Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)
| Preface | p. 9 |
| Introduction: Down Germantown Avenue | p. 15 |
| Decent and Street Families | p. 35 |
| Campaigning for Respect | p. 66 |
| Drugs, Violence, and Street Crime | p. 107 |
| The Mating Game | p. 142 |
| The Decent Daddy | p. 179 |
| The Black Inner-City Grandmother in Transition | p. 206 |
| John Turner's Story | p. 237 |
| Conclusion: The Conver... MORE | p. 290 |
| Notes | p. 326 |
| Bibliography | p. 333 |
| Index | p. 343 |
| Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
Elijah Anderson is Charles and William L. Day Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
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