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

by Anderson, Elijah

• ISBN13: 9780393320787
• ISBN10: 0393320782
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780393070385
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780393040234
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Elijah Anderson is Charles and William L. Day Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

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 Conversion of a Role Model: Looking for Mr. Johnson	p. 290
Notes	p. 326
Bibliography	p. 333
Index	p. 343
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