Code of the Street (1999), Elijah Anderson's landmark study of urban etiquette in Philadelphia, is widely assigned as a college text. The book grew out of a 1994 cover story in The Atlantic.
An Atlantic interview about the book with Anderson (who visits Tuesday, April 26) appeared August 18, 1999:
Q: To what extent are the dynamics of inner-city life in Philadelphia representative of inner-city life throughout the nation?
A: Wherever there are pockets of poverty and alienation -- whether you're talking about Chicago or New York, Rio or Johannesburg -- you have the code of the street. As a social scientist I am trying to represent this reality as accurately as I can because I think it's very important to get the real story out. My concern in this work is to develop a model that allows for an understanding of Philadelphia that has implications for understanding similar places. To the extent that there are similar problems, there may be similar solutions. More.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Code of the Street: Elijah Anderson
Cosmopolitan Canopy: Elijah Anderson
Elijah Anderson, leading sociologist of the Black urban experience, visits the Writers Institute this coming Tuesday, April 26, to talk about his new book, The Cosmopolitan Canopy (2011).
Sudhir Venkatesh gives an in-depth review in Slate:
"This is timely terrain, and it is sociology at its finest. There are few writers openly exploring this undercurrent of hostility and self-doubt experienced by a historically subjugated group that just managed to elect one of their own as president. Not since DuBois' impassioned declaration a century ago, that black Americans had a 'double consciousness,' have we seen such sharp use of social analysis for truth-telling." More.
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