The Social Consequences of Affirmative Action
Elijah Anderson
Monday, 16 Feb 2004 at 7:00 pm – Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Elijah Anderson is the author of Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community and The Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, among many publications. He is the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and associat director of the Center for Urban Ethnography.
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