作者:
Elijah Anderson 出版社: W. W. Norton & Company 副标题: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City 出版年: 2000-9-17 页数: 352 定价: USD 17.95 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780393320787
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, talk, and behave can have life-or-death consequences, with young people particularly at risk.The most powerful force counteracting this code and its reign of terror is the strong, lovi...
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, talk, and behave can have life-or-death consequences, with young people particularly at risk.The most powerful force counteracting this code and its reign of terror is the strong, loving, decent family, and we meet many heroic figures in the course of this narrative. Unfortunately, the culture of the street thrives and often defeats decency because it controls public spaces, so that individuals with higher, better aspirations are often entangled in the code and its self-destructive behaviors.Writing in the tradition of Jane Jacobs and William Julius Wilson, the author delineates the true workings of city streets. His most interesting characters are not the bullies and dealers, but the decent folks, young and old, who through entrepreneurship and creative self-help strategies are forging a viable alternative, an escape from the code of the street.Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award, this incisive book examines the code 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. An individual's safety and sense of worth are determined by the respect he commands in public--a deference frequently based on an implied threat of violence. Unfortunately, even those with higher aspirations can often become entangled in the code's self-destructive behaviors.
作者简介
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Elijah Anderson holds the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. His most prominent works include "The Cosmopolitan Canopy" and the award-winning books "Code of the Street" and "Streetwise". His writings have also appeared in "The Atlantic, The Washington Post", and "The New York Times Bo...
Elijah Anderson holds the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. His most prominent works include "The Cosmopolitan Canopy" and the award-winning books "Code of the Street" and "Streetwise". His writings have also appeared in "The Atlantic, The Washington Post", and "The New York Times Book Review". He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia.
A large part of her identity is provided by the baby under her care and guidance, and for many street-oriented girls there is no quicker way to grow up. Becoming a mother can be a strong play for authority, maturity, and respect, but it is also a shortsighted and naïve gamble because the girl often fails to realize that her life will be suddenly burdened and her choices significantly limited. (查看原文)
"Each sexual encounter generally has a winner and a loser. The girls have a dream, the boys a desire. The girls dream of being carried off by a Prince Charming who will love them, provide for them, and give them a family. The boys often desire either sex without commitment or babies without responsibility for them. It becomes extremely difficult for the boys, in view of their employment prospects, to see themselves taking on the responsibilities of conventional fathers and husbands. Yet they know what the girls want and play that role to get sex. In accepting a boy’s advances, a girl may think she is maneuvering him toward a commitment or that her getting pregnant is the nudge he needs to marry her and give her the life she wants. What she does not see is that the boy, despite his claims, ... (查看原文)
0 有用 蝉 2014-01-05 12:42:04
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0 有用 破 2012-06-09 07:15:38
并不奇怪. 我倒觉得deindustrialization是post-industrialization.
0 有用 小水 2015-02-23 13:41:12
code-switch
0 有用 Rowe 2019-11-03 10:16:05
这是一本街头社会分析的必读，虽然预设明显和结构松散
0 有用 纽纽特 2020-10-12 06:18:36
目前读了chapter 2，有时间再接着读