Code of the Street

Elijah Anderson

• 11 augustus 2026
• 9781324106029

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25th Anniversary Edition “Unsparing and important… An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.” – The Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)



Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules–based largely on an individual's ability to command respect–is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it 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.