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Author Anderson, Elijah.

Title Streetwise : race, class, and change in an urban community / Elijah Anderson
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990

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Description xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Streetwise : race, class, and change in an urban community / Elijah Anderson. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Village Setting -- 2. The Northton Community -- 3. The Impact of Drugs -- 4. Sex Codes and Family Life among Northton's Youth -- 5. In the Shadow of the Ghetto -- 6. The Black Male in Public -- 7. The Police and the Black Male -- 8. Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Characteristics of the Village-Northton Area -- References -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Inner cities Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Gentrification Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Neighborhood Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index
Subject African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gentrification -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Inner cities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095520 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116569
LC no. 90034048
ISBN 0226018156 (alk. paper)