Elijah Anderson, Author University of Chicago Press $42.5 (283p) ISBN 978-0-226-01815-7
In this ethnographic study of an anonymous Eastern urban community he calls Village-Northton, Anderson delineates the multifaceted elements that form a neighborhood in transition. Northton is predominantly black, its residents poor; Village is...
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Elijah Anderson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-04023-4
Not content to sugarcoat problems or to stockpile blame, Anderson (Streetwise and A Place on the Corner) takes a piercing look at the complex issues surrounding respect, social etiquette and family values in the multicultural neighborhoods along...
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Elijah Anderson, Norton, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-07163-4
Yale sociology professor Anderson (Code of the Street) takes the reader on an ethnographic walking tour of Philadelphia to observe how city dwellers interact across racial lines. He attends particularly to the "cosmopolitan canopy"—public settings...
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Elijah Anderson. Univ. of Chicago, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-226-65723-3
Yale sociologist Anderson (The Cosmopolitan Canopy) examines in this penetrating ethnographic study “the everyday interactions of Black and white Americans” in Philadelphia and other cities. Describing public spaces where people of different races,...
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