Code of the Street

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. Free Read [ Code of the Street ] by [ Elijah Anderson ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Anderson s book is an interesting, enthralling look at life in inner city Philadelphia His ethnographic portraits of how individuals navigate life in an extremely poor, all African American neighborhood are important, powerful, and add to our understanding of inner city experiences and the legacy of slavery and the ongoing existence of racism and racial segregation However, the book has a few problems, most of which revolve around gender and Anderson s attention to it Code of the Street is Anderson s book is an interesting, enthralling look at life in inner city Philadelphia His ethnographic portraits of how individuals navigate life in an extremely poor, all African American neighborhood are important, powerful, and add to our understanding of inner city experiences and the legacy of slavery and the ongoing existence of racism and racial segregation However, the book has a few problems, most of which revolve around gender and Anderson s attention to it Code of the Street is a book where masculinity is everywhere and nowhere at once It is everywhere because the vast majority of the people that he profiles are men So the book centers around their lives women are often absent or peripheral And yet masculinity is nowhere because Anderson apparently has no knowledge of gender or feminist theory Having most of his informants be men would not be a problem if he would actually talk about why this is the case presum...In fairness, I should note that I read this book over a decade after it had been published This aside, it is a book that clearly influenced such work as HBO s The Wire best series ever.That said, I have to wonder whyattention or study wasn t given to the women In many ways, this is a book about men in those areas with little sidebars about the women There is no concrete example given of the women outside the blanket stereotypes that are assigned to ...I work in the criminal justice system in Philadelphia and have great respect for Elijah Anderson s perspective His accounts and explanations are as real as it gets Anyone who works with poverty stricken, at risk populations in urban areas should be aware of Anderson s work This book gets a bit wordy at times but the underlying message is clear We need to doto educate and train these individuals for legitimate professions Otherwise we are going to continue, unsuccessfully, attempting t I work in...yeah Not so much I have many problems with this book First off, it is very clearly written by a middle aged man This man has very specific ideas of gender rolls and the place of decency and family values in a community and any different or modern ideas of these things are not considered His opinions which are largely unfounded on teen pregnancy and welfare are vague, absurd and apparently based on common rumors spread by young males in the neighborhood They lack even a basic understa yeah Not so much I have many problems with this book First off, it is very clearly written by a middle aged man This man has very specific ideas of gender rolls and the place of decency and family values in a community and any different or modern ideas of these things are not considered His opinions which are largely unfounded on teen pregnancy and welfare are vague, absurd and apparently based on common rumors spread by young males in the neighborhood They lack even a basic understanding of teenagers, women in particular and the options available or not avail...A very readable ethnographic account of life in some of the worst inner city neighborhoods in Philadelphia kind of an academic counterpart to David Simon s The Corner The book is ten years old now so some of the details feel a bit dated b...I didn t get this book, it just felt like a whole lot of generalizations Ostensibly he did research, but he doesn t use a lot of examples to back up what he s saying.Code of the Street is a helpful, if not slightly dated and overly repetitive look at the oppositional culture of urban America He develops the dichotomy of street vs decent While I generally agree with his two poles I would prefer to see them as two extremes on a line of continuum And people are often in flux shifting between street and decent depending on the situation they find themselves in Of course, there are some who are further along to the left or the rightstreet, mor Code of the Street is a helpful, if not slightly dated and overly repetitive look at the oppositional culture of urban America He develops the dichotomy of street vs decent While I generally agree with his two poles I would prefer to see them as two extremes on a line of continuum And people are often in flux shifting between street and decent depending on the situation they find themselves in Of course, there are some who are further along to the left or the rightstreet,decent This book is most helpful when Anderson allows the people to speak, when he transcribes the words of those who are actually in the thick of it I personally found these accounts most helpful And they served to back up the points Anderson was seekin...The first three chapters of this book basically make Anderson s point, that there is a different moral ethical code for the decent families in the inner city black community and the street families He then spends the rest of the book drawing out the implications for childhood preganancy, grandmothers, and fathers In the last two chapters Anderson leaves the objective pose of the sociologist and tells the stories of two young men with whom he got personally involved in the course of his re The first three chapters of this book basically make Anderson s point, that there is a different moral ethical code for the de...In this ethnographic study of North Philadelphia street culture Anderson reproduces many of the myths about a self destructive black, urban underclass While he avoids outright victim blaming, by accepting the then common culture of poverty narrative, Anderson locates the root of urban poverty and its byproducts not in the fundamental economic and political inequality created and perpetuated by capitalism but in black pathology Further, Anderson s own moral predispositions permeate In this ethn...This book proved to be a lot to ponder and realize about the life of a lot of people of color, not necessarily those in the inner city I was able to relate to a lot of what was being said and explained and it shed some light on other things that I had not experienced This is a read that can be used as a reference over and over again and it would be right to have this as a bit of required reading for college courses, it it isn t already This would have been a good resource for my African Ameri This book proved to be a lot to ponder and realize about the life of a lot of people of color, not necessarily those in the inner city I was able to relate to a lot of what was being said and explained and it shed some light on other things that I had not experienc...

• English
• 26 July 2018
Elijah Anderson
• Paperback
• 352 pages
• 0393320782
• Elijah Anderson
• Code of the Street