Code of the Street
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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.
Elijah Anderson is Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. Recipient of the 2021 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, his other prominent works include the classic A Place on the Corner and the award–winning Streetwise.