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Author Anderson, Elijah.

Title Code of the street : decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city / Elijah Anderson.

Imprint New York : W.W Norton, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.330896 An23c    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 352 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-342) and index.
Contents Down Germantown Avenue -- Decent and street families -- Campaigning for respect -- Drugs, violence, and street crime -- The mating game -- The decent daddy -- The black inner-city grandmother in transition -- John Turner's story -- The conversion of a role model : looking for Mr. Johnson.
Subject African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs.
Inner cities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 0393040232

 
    
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