Recent Publications

Books

• Anderson, Elijah, Dana Asbury, Duke W. Austin, Esther Chihye Kim, and Vani Kulkarni (eds.) (2012). Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 642, June 2012, Sage Press.
• Anderson, Elijah (2012). The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, W. W. Norton & Company.
• Anderson, Elijah (ed.) (2009). Urban Ethnography: Its Traditions and Its Future. (Ethnography, Special Double Issue), Sage Press. December, Volume 10, No. 4.
• Anderson, Elijah (ed.) (2008). Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male. Penn Press.
• Anderson, Elijah, Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones (eds.) (2004) Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries. (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) Sage Press 595 (September).
• Anderson, Elijah (2003). A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men, (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Anderson, Elijah, and Doug Massey (eds.) (2001). Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States. California: Sage Publications.
• Anderson, Elijah and Tukufu Zuberi (eds.) (2000). The Study of African American Problems: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Agenda, Then and Now (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) Sage Press 568(March).
• Anderson, Elijah (1999). Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Anderson, Elijah (1990). Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Articles

• Anderson, Elijah (2016) “The sociological theory that explains Trump’s assumption that all black citizens live in the ‘inner city,’” Vox, October 18, 2016.
• Anderson, Elijah (2015) “For Inner Cities, a Challenge Beyond the N.R.A. on Gun Control,” The New York Times, October 5, 2015.
• Anderson, Elijah (2015) “The White Space,” in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2015, Vol.1(1) 10-21.
• Anderson, Elijah (2014) “What caused the Ferguson riot exists in so many other cities, too.” The Washington Post, August 13, 2014.
• Wiebe D.J., Guo W., Allison P.D., Anderson E., Richmond T.S., Branas C.C. (2013) Fears of Violence During Morning Travel to School. Journal of Adolescent Health 2013;53:54-61.
• Anderson, Elijah (2013).“Emmett and Trayvon: How racial prejudice in America has changed in the last sixty years.” in Washington Monthly, January/February 2013.
• Anderson, Elijah (2012).“Reflections on the ‘Black-White Achievement Gap’” in Journal of School Psychology 50, pp. 593-597, October, 2012.
• Anderson, Elijah (2012). “The Iconic Ghetto,” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 642 July: 8-24.
• Anderson, Elijah (2004). “The Cosmopolitan Canopy,” Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 595 September: 14-31.
• Anderson, Elijah (2003). “Jelly’s Place: An Ethnographic Memoir” (Distinguished Lecture), Symbolic Interaction, 26 (2): 217-237.
• Anderson, Elijah and Nancy B. Hisrshinger, et al. (2003). “A Case-Control Study of Female-Female Non-Intimate Violence in an Urban Area,” The American Journal of Public Health, 93 (7): 1098-1103.
• Anderson, Elijah (2001). “Going Straight: The Story of a Young Inner-City Ex-convict,” Punishment & Society 3(1): 135-52.

Chapters

• Anderson, Elijah and Jamie J. Fader (2008) “Urban Underclass,” in Vincent N. Parrillo (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Problems, pp.986-88. Sage Publications.
• Anderson, Elijah (2006). “Inadequate Responses, Limited Expectations,” in Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter (eds.) Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina, pp. 193-200. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Anderson, Elijah and Faye Allard (2004). “Ethnography,” in Kimberly Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. Academic Press.
• Anderson, Elijah (2001). “Urban Ethnography,” in N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, pp. 16004-08. Elsevier, Inc.