The Washington Post, November 19th, 1993
"Sex Codes Among Inner-City Youth" is the title of a remarkable paper presented this week by University of Pennsylvania Professor Elijah Anderson to a seminar at the American Enterprise Institute. Its 40 pages describe in excruciating detail the sex and abandonment "game" played by boys and girls in an inner-city Philadelphia community, one of the poorest and most blighted in the country. Anderson is a scrupulous and sympathetic student of inner-city life. "Streetwise," his book on life in a ghetto community, is a classic of urban ethnography. Five years of intensive observation and interview...
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