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.