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the code of the street

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According to Anderson, these norms of the street grow out of an opposition to mainstream culture, which itself is a response to the alienation of black inner-city residents from the economic and social institutions of a predominantly white society (p. 323). The code ensures some amount of physical protection in an environment where a violent drug economy poses a sense of danger in everyday public life...
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323). The code ensures some amount of physical protection in an environment where a violent drug economy poses a sense of danger in everyday public life. Ambient threats to personal security, combined with a distrust of the police, lead youth to develop their own policing mechanisms through which respect must be demonstrated toward those who have built reputations based on their toughness...
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