Code Of The Street Essay

In the beginning chapters of the book, we get a glimpse of the typical home and community of an African American during segregation. Many Africans Americans were too adjusted to the way of living, that they felt

(Rogers 407) Since 2012 more African Americans are attending college to work toward a higher education to at least help them out of poverty. There is also an increase in older college students in their late thirties to fifties that also returned to school for a higher education. (Ebony Magazine, 2012. Women of African American seem to have a much harder time, than other race of people, in poverty and are even harder for them in older age. “The term triple jeopardy has been used to describe “female ethnic-minority elderly.” Members of this particular group face discrimination in three ways-being a women, elderly, and a member of an ethnic minority group-putting them even more at risk for poverty than other adults”.(Rogers 407). People who live in poverty often have other problems such as stress, prolonged illness and disability, reduced access to health care, poor living conditions and malnutrition problems. The formal support system for African Americans who experience living in poverty can get help from: Tax Credits (Snap), subsidies programs – Section 8 program, Habitat for Humanity’s and free school lunches for children. The problem with some of these programs is that many people do not qualify for these services even as they struggle with poverty. Some ways of helping themselves is to help at home and lower the electric and gas bills by turning off lights when not needed. When taking shorter baths,

Anderson begins his book by saying that across the country many people have this incredible fear of public places in the city. Anderson states “Around the nation, urban residents feel intimidated by their streets, parks, and other public places, particularly after dark or when too many strangers are present. The national problem of safe streets has become especially acute in the city, particularly in underclass ghetto communities and adjacent areas undergoing

Part of the article focuses on African American mothers living in Harlem where 69% are families where the head of the family is the women. These tend to work or get their income from more than one source, and many are still below the poverty line. Many of these women, sho live in low income neighbourhoods on top of these struggle to keep their children away or bring them out of the drug culture in their neighbourhood, since the a lot of the youth tend to be in these cultures. This as well afects their reproduction because some might not want to have children beause their scared of them being eveloped in this drug world. African Americans have twice the rate of infant death compared to the whole america while Central Harlem had three times the amount of death.

The choices all of a sudden thrown at a generation of young women who felt they had endless possibilities many women felt unsure of the consequences of their actions, many found them selves with hard choices in front of them , some women chose to stay single or pursue an alternate lifestyle, some felt they needed to force the strain and chance of an illegal abortion. Many African American women had become the better educated gender in their race which produced a whole new problem for these educated women.(Pg. 416) Many men found this to be a great threat to their manhood. (Pg. 416) This helped promoted many American women to stay single and not have children.

By applying Dr. William’s theory of why people are poor to the women of Poverty Outlaw, it becomes crystal clear as to why they are poor. Of the four parts of the test (graduate from high school, get married before you have kids and stay married, work any job, and avoid criminal behavior) the women of the Kensington Welfare Union (KWU) either fail some or all of the tests laid out by Dr. Williams.

On the Other hand, decent parents raised the children with praise and usually worked hard, attended church, and raised their children with good morals. Continuing, he talked about the importance of self-image to street kids who would steal or even injure another person just to dress in a superior fashion. Children of decent people weren’t caught up in self-image and usually had self-confidence. After that, the article went on to talk about manhood and how the kids who grow up street measured manhood as being ruthless and physical. While the kids who grew up in a decent home were not afraid to be called weak because of self-confidence and the positivity in their lives. Then, he talk about the comparison of boys and girls in the street group were girls almost had their own definition of manhood, such as being the cutest girl or the toughest girl. While the males wanted respect from everybody. Finally, he talked about cases of kids growing up in a decent home turning to the street way of life to prove their, “blackness” because of barriers in mainstream society, mostly racism. In Conclusion, I enjoyed reading this article because it does show that there is a negative cycle not only in poor black communities but

For African American women who were living in poverty, most of them ranged from ages 17 to 29. Poverty Is rapidly becoming a female problem. Though many women have achieved economic Independence from their spouses by their participation In the labor force (and in some cases, by divorce), for many the price of that independence has been their pauperization and dependence on welfare, in 1976, nearly two out of three of the 15 million poor persons over 18 were women. (Bureau of the Census, 1976) in certain groups, the imbalance was even greater: over 70% of the aged poor are women. Black women, who were only 6.1% of the population in 1975, accounted for 17.0% of the poor that year (Pearce, Diane;

When you skim the pages of The Atlantic newspaper (1994 edition) and view the article ‘The Code of the Streets’ published by author Elijah Anderson curiosity will stimulate your mind to reflect on the critical time periods and the chosen words to describe the society. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to engage readers in the theoretical arguments and to stimulate the mind to ask sociological and criminological questions regarding the information present in ‘The Code of the Streets.’

This reading was slightly hard for me to relate to at first. Then the more I thought about it the more I realized how many encounters and interactions I’ve actually had with scenarios like these. In Young’s reading about the woman and her two kids who had to settle for a place to live that wasn’t ideal I was incredibly frustrated. It’s seriously sad to think that there are other people going through similar struggle like this. It’s not logical to make three months’ rent deposit and pay for the other startups that come with an apartment, especially when you have to kids and you’re a single mom. She’s obviously trying to do what’s right but because of her situation she is not able to. This is part of the reason I think poverty recycles itself, because we do not give a lot of the opportunities needed to get out of slumps like this. Minimum wage is not ideal and struggles to meet the cost of living, especially if you’re a single mom with two kids. After this first part, the reading got more into what we can do as a society, and I think my favorite idea that was talked about was how we do not have the choice of where we are born into. I did not choose to be a white female but it’s what I was born into. When Johnson got started with “Changing how we think will not be enough to solve the problem.” I disagreed quite a bit. Sure it is true for some groups but I find it hard to believe that it’s true for all. Johnson also stated that if everyone took responsibility and kept

In addition, the code of the street explains why in high risk communities sometimes code-switching is necessary in order for some to achieve and gain the respect they deserve. The guest speaker discussed that code-switching is fundamental for safety and survival of those whom are raised in decent families because they are usually the ones who are dramatized. Also the guest speaker pointed that peer pressured is another factor that has influenced decent kids to code-switching and get involved in criminals’ activities. By knowing why these kids are code-switching people that are working in preventing gun violence might direct their support to these kids and prevent them cope with kids from “street families” which in the long run will stop them

The use of a zipcode not only divides postal routes, but used as a mechanism to determine economic class status. Socioeconomic status is based on education, occupation, family income, and social bonds. Neighborhoods productivity relies on these factors in order to be viewed as valuable by society. When neighborhoods don’t meet the expectations they are labeled as the hood. Once this label is attached anyone who resides in these neighborhoods are preconceived as being ghetto. Once labeled individuals do one of two things conform to the label or make a priority to prove the label wrong.

Chicago ranks as the third largest city in America with nearly three million people crammed into 234 square miles. As in every culture, there is a set of rules; however, while related, the rules in a city and the rules in a suburb deviate. In cities, it is more likely action be taken for serious crimes rather than small misdemeanors such as jay walking. However, despite the likelihood of receiving a ticket or encountering law enforcement, there is still of degree of subscription to rules or “norms”.

What do you think of when you hear the term 'Street style'? For many, the term conjures up endless, and I mean endless, images of white, middle class guys with far too much time and money on their hands. These dandies (a man who is devoted to style) flaunt themselves from one high street coffee chain to the next, waiting to run into a street style photographer so they can light up a cigarette and pose pretty seductively. Would I be wrong in saying that?

The 'Code of Street' describes a phenomena such as collective efficacy, which it means shared beliefs and expectations of individuals in the society are