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

di Elijah Anderson (Autore)

WW Norton & Co, 2001

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.

• Autore: Elijah Anderson
• Editore: WW Norton & Co
• Anno: 2001
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 211 x 140 mm
• Peso: 395 gr.
• EAN: 9780393320787

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