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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson

This pattern of exclusion resulted in deep and debilitating social pathologies in the black community, the legacy of which persists to this day. Edit Reply I believe that is the point of the wire. He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia. Drug dealers are living the fast life; they are living on the edge. Much of the lack of support for marriage is due to poor employment prospects, but it may also have to do with general distrust of women to whom the men are not related by blood. But while relatively advantaged youths with clear options may dabble in this culture, becoming hip enough for social approval and then mov ­ing on, those with fewer apparent options and a limited sense of the future may more fully invest themselves in the culture, attempting to gain status according to its principles and norms. In such a household the home has a certain defense.

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Some of these traditions go back to the time of slavery and have served to keep the community together for many gener ­ations. He and his wife went to the police station, returned home at two in the morning, and cleaned up the blood. The growth and transformation of this underclass is in large part a result of the profound economic changes the counny-especially urban areas like Philadelphia-has undergone in the past twenty to thirty years. She may be careful about showing her doubt, however, thinking that when the baby arrives she will be able to tell in a minute if her son is the father. Jackets, sneakers, gold jewelry, reflect not just a person's taste, which tends to be tightly regulated among adolescents of all social classes, but also a willingness to possess things that may require defending.

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And she's very strong because she has to go to work and put up with this every single day. In fact, the overwhelming majority of families in the inner-city community try to approximate the decent-family model, but many others clearly represent the decent families' worst fears. If I need help, the older ones'll help me. Maggie, in Maggie: Girl of the Streets is a premiere example of a character in a world where the individuality is pushed aside entirely. Not only are their financial resources extremely limited, but what little they have may easily be misused. .

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The Robin Hood phenomenon helps the justifi ­cation process. When such factors are added to the consequences of deindustriali ­zation, the result is an incendiary situation, as Du Bois appreciated. Some spend their time going back and forth between two families; if their marriages seem not be working, they may ditch them and their wives, though perhaps keeping up with the children. Certainly women have more to contribute to his story than just that. It embodies the whole person and is thus cru ­cial to success. Daddy ain't gonna play fair-Daddy gonna get the shotgun.

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After all, he has the power in these circumstances, a power that anyone should perceive. The interplay between these two factors is powerfully at work in the social organization of the underground economy in inner-city neighbor ­hoods. Diane is forty-six years old, of average height, heavyset, and light-complexioned. Since drug trafficking permeates so much of the inner-city community, all its residents, whether involved with drugs or not, are at risk of finding themselves the unintended target of a stray bullet. The smarter stickup boys, however, are increasingly coming to fear the chump because of the likelihood that he is precisely not down or knowledgeable about the code of the street. It is the police's job to protect the peace, to maintain order, and the cops sit and watch the crowd come and go.

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Social Forces, 75 3 , 799- 833. Until the time when my aunt started taking care of me, being my baby-sitter. Regard and respect are associated with this concept in large part because of its practical application: if others have little or no regard for a person's manhood, his very life and those of his loved ones could be in jeopardy. They lack even a basic understa yeah. The first thing that happens is that a crowd gathers about the site of the shooting or the incident. Unless a man can so handle his wife that she will put few constraints on him, he may reason that he had better stay away from marriage. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project.

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

As jobs become scarce for young black men, their success as bread ­winners and traditional husbands declines. True nerve exposes a lack of fear of dying. But with a growing sense of being independent of men, financially and otherwise, fewer women may allow themselves to be treated in this manner. It was clear that they were afraid of being hit by some flying object—or possibly of being shot at. Delinquency and opportunity: A theory of delinquent gangs.

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

At the very least, such support groups can strongly communicate their expectations that the girl will do something with her life other than have a baby out of wedlock-that is, they subscribe to and seek to pass on middle-class values. The rules prescribe both a proper comportment and a proper way to respond if challenged. Not everybody was a nerd. They try to achieve this end in the ways that have been established by the boys, including posturing, abusive language, and the use of violence to resolve disputes, but the issues for the girls are different. And many young blacks sometimes in direct response find it difficult to take white people or even con ­ventional black people seriously, and they actively live their lives in opposition to them and everything they are taken to represent. The girl may play along, becoming manip ­ulative and aggressive, or the boy may lie, cheat, or otherwise mis ­represent himself to obtain or retain her favors.