A Place On The Corner

Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677502X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place on the Corner, Second Edition written by Elijah Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah Anderson's sociological classic, a study of street corner life at a local barroom/liquor store located in the ghetto on Chicago's South Side. Anderson returned night after night, month after month, to gain a deeper understanding of the people he met, vividly depicting how they created—and recreated—their local stratification system. In addition, Anderson introduces key sociological concepts, including "the extended primary group" and "being down." The new preface and appendix in this edition expand on Anderson's original work, telling the intriguing story of how he went about his field work among the men who frequented Jelly's corner.

Author : Jan Haldipur
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479869082
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Place on the Corner written by Jan Haldipur and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, given by the Goddard Riverside Community Center The impact of stop-and-frisk policing on a South Bronx community What’s it like to be stopped and frisked by the police while walking home from the supermarket with your young children? How does it feel to receive a phone call from your fourteen-year-old son who is in the back of a squad car because he laughed at a police officer? How does a young person of color cope with being frisked several times a week since the age of 15? These are just some of the stories in No Place on the Corner, which draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx before and after the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York decision that ruled that the NYPD’s controversial “stop and frisk” policing methods were a violation of rights. Through riveting interviews and with a humane eye, Jan Haldipur shows how a community endured this aggressive policing regime. Though the police mostly targeted younger men of color, Haldipur focuses on how everyone in the neighborhood—mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters, even the district attorney’s office—was affected by this intense policing regime and thus shows how this South Bronx community as a whole experienced this collective form of punishment. One of Haldipur’s key insights is to demonstrate how police patrols effectively cleared the streets of residents and made public spaces feel off-limits or inaccessible to the people who lived there. In this way community members lost the very ‘street corner’ culture that has been a hallmark of urban spaces. This profound social consequence of aggressive policing effectively keeps neighbors out of one another’s lives and deeply hurts a community’s sense of cohesion. No Place on the Corner makes it hard to ignore the widespread consequences of aggressive policing tactics in major cities across the United States.

Author : David Simon
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307833461
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corner written by David Simon and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family--two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.

Author : Jenny Colgan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062467263
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookshop on the Corner written by Jenny Colgan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop. Nina is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion… and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile — a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing one life after another with the power of storytelling. From helping her grumpy landlord deliver a lamb, to sharing picnics with a charming train conductor who serenades her with poetry, Nina discovers there’s plenty of adventure, magic, and soul in a place that’s beginning to feel like home… a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending.

Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226019536
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place on the Corner written by Elijah Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anderson's mix of the language of sociology and the more colorful street idiom makes a complex social phenomenon accessible to a broad audience. . . . An important work."—Gerald Lee Dillingham, Contemporary Sociology

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Author : James E. Talmage
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373262577X
Total Pages : 242 pages
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