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Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community
by Elijah Anderson

    Publication Date: Nov 15, 1992
    List Price: $20.00
    Format: Paperback, 276 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780226018164
    Imprint: University of Chicago Press
    Publisher: University of Chicago Press
    Parent Company: University of Chicago

    Paperback Description:

    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



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