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Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

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Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

By: Elijah Anderson  

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In a powerful, revealing portrait of city life, Anderson explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground—prime real estate in a racially changing neighborhood—but for shared moral community. Blacks and whites from a variety of backgrounds speak candidly about their lives, their differences, and their battle for viable communities.

"The sharpness of his observations and the simple clarity of his prose recommend his book far beyond an academic audience. Vivid, unflinching, finely observed, Streetwise is a powerful and intensely frightening picture of the inner city."—Tamar Jacoby, New York Times Book Review

"The book is without peer in the urban sociology literature. . . . A first-rate piece of social science, and a very good read."—Glenn C. Loury, Washington Times


Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
To be safe, read this: - 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.

Customer Review: 3 out of 5
Out dated - 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.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
snapshots of the real american city - 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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