A Place on the Corner

by Elijah Anderson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226019594
• ISBN13: 9780226019598
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"