Elijah Anderson

Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale, and a recent Stockholm Prize Laureate. His most recent book is Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life. His body of ethnographic work also includes A Place on the Corner; Streetwise; Code of the Street, adapted from an Atlantic cover story; and The Cosmopolitan Canopy.

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  1. Black Success, White Backlash

    Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life exhausting for people of color—and it has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.

    Elijah Anderson
    image of a Newton's cradle or pendulum with one black ball swinging to hit 4 stationary white balls on gray background
    Illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Source: Getty / Artpartner-Images.

  2. The Code of the Streets

    In this essay in urban anthropology a social scientist takes us inside a world most of us only glimpse in grisly headlines—"Teen Killed in Drive By Shooting"—to show us how a desperate search for respect governs social relations among many African-American young men

    Elijah Anderson