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Title: Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community by Elijah Anderson ISBN: 0-226-01816-4 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: To be safe, read this:
Comment: Have you ever walked through a strange city neighborhood and have somebody ask you for the time?
Have you wondered, "What's their game?"
Have you wondered why there is little civility or dignity left in our cities?
Have you wondered why some young people feel that they can just grab what they covet, and even shoot someone down without hardly a thought?
What is going on?
Why are these disturbing trends getting worse... especially now that the so-called '90s boom is over?
In Streetwise, Dr. Anderson maps out the problems besetting our cities in America--
and explains for all of us what the social, political, and economic exclusion of our poorest entails.
Rating: 3
Summary: Out dated
Comment: The is a brilliant piece for the time it was written (in 1992). But when I read it last week, I felt that many of the themes about ghetto v. middle class cultures were apparent to me. Dr. Anderson is a professor at phenn and I guess that is why i was required to read it here (Penn's soci 001 course). Anderson drove the point home in his introduction and trying to read on for 200 pages was a pain. He says "compounded by race" after every chapter. Maybe if I wasn't rushed to write an essay for the course, I could have appreciated this scholarly volume a bit more.
Rating: 5
Summary: snapshots of the real american city
Comment: This book actually gets at the guts of the problem of social relations between blacks and whites. As gentrification becomes a larger problem in American cities, the economic prospects are shadowing the social issues that are swept under the rug by politicans. The reader gains a sense of the residents of northton and the village and hopefully will understand why we act like we do.(ignorant) Understand the power of this sociological masterpiece and it will bring to light what others do to protect their urban community.
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Title: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson ISBN: 0393320782 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson ISBN: 0226901319 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.03 |
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Title: When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson ISBN: 0679724176 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton ISBN: 0674018214 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City by Paul A. Jargowsky ISBN: 0871544067 Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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