Author: Henry Mayhew
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: Ann Petry
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ISBN: 9780349019635
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Elijah Anderson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393070387
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
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Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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ISBN: 9789386245403
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Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Author: Sirinya Pakditawan
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ISBN: 9783656841746
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, language: English, abstract: Ann Petry, a female Afro-American novelist, published her novel The Street in 1946. The setting of this novel is Harlem in the 1940s. The story deals with the life and trials of the Mulatto woman Lutie Johnson and her struggle to find a place in this environment for herself and her son. Hence, The Street is also concerned with different aspects of urban life. Thus, one might also claim that Petry's novel is about portraying the difficulties a single coloured woman and mother had in Harlem, living on 116th Street in New York City. Apart from being an urban novel, Petry also captured the symbolic character of Harlem in The Street, namely that it is a "(...) symbol of the Negro's perpetual alienation in the land of his birth." Hence, this novel also touches upon the topic of disillusionment in city life. In the following analysis, we will primarily deal with the last chapters of the novel and in particular with the end of the novel, which shows Lutie Johnson leaving Harlem and moving to Chicago. On the one hand, we will be concerned with the reasons and motifs why Lutie is disillusioned and finally leaves Harlem. On the other hand, we will deal with the implications and possibilities that Lutie's movement to Chicago brings with it.
Author: London
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Ann Lane Petry
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Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: Mordecai Richler
Publisher: Washington : The New Republic Book Company
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Street is a collection of short stories by Mordecai Richler. It was originally published by McClelland and Stewart in 1969. The stories take place on Saint Urbain Street in Montreal.