E44: ELIJAH ANDERSON - One of the World's Most Significant Ethnographers Uses Storytelling to Spread Awareness about The African-American Experience

Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist. He is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. Professor Anderson is one of the world's leading urban ethnographers and cultural theorists. He has written several very important books, including: Code of the street: Decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city, and Against the Wall: Poor, Black, and Male. In his latest book, Black in White Space, Professor Anderson discusses the burden and unique challenges black people are faced with as they navigate "white" space".