Elijah Anderson is Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. His most prominent works include the award-winning books Code of the Street and Streetwise. He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia.
"A brilliant diagnosis of the internal factors that hold blacks
back."
*Wall Street Journal*
"One of the most interesting examinations of poverty, violence and
sociology to emerge in recent years."
*Boston Herald*
"One of our best ethnographers.... Anderson is excellent in
explaining how the criminal element, through a numerical minority,
comes to dominate public space."
*New York Times Book Review*
"Important.... [Anderson] demonstrates, time and again, how
optimism, ambition and decency can sprout in the most unlikely
places, given even the slimmest chance."
*Newsweek*
"Eloquent and moving.... A strikingly powerful work that rings with
urgency."
*Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here*
"This is the best treatment we have of the tormented inner life of
young people wrestling with nihilism in a society indifferent to
their plight and predicament."
*Cornel West*
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