Code of the Street
Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
by Elijah Anderson
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appears in About Philadelphia, Social Sciences, and Nonfiction.
Innercity 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 wellknown 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 peo...
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appears in About Philadelphia, Social Sciences, and Nonfiction.
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