Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. His books include A Place on the Corner, Streetwise, published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Code of the Street and The Cosmopolitan Canopy.
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A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions in ordinary settings—and yet, they sparked jarring and inflammatory responses that involved the police ... SEE MORE