Summary Of The Code Of The Street By Elijah Anderson

1. Jamaal L. Shields 2. Reading #11: “The Code of the Street” by Elijah Anderson 3. The argument Elijah Anderson is trying to make is that the behavior of the children today is greatly influenced by the street culture. In this street culture, he describes it as being violent when they’re faced with impersonal attacks and any type of disrespect shown. 4. I think this course reading fits with two course concepts from the lectures in class and the textbook. The first concept would be ethnography. The author had reached a personal level with the disadvantaged African American communities of Philadelphia. He was able to distinguish the difference between “street” families and “decent” families. In the decent families, they teach their