Elijah Anderson, one of the leading urban ethnographers and cultural theorists in the United States, is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. Among his many scholarly contributions to the field of sociology are five books that provide a detailed cultural history of US urban landscapes. Qualitative fieldwork he conducted as a doctoral student at the University of Chicago led to his widely acclaimed first book, A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men (University of Chicago Press, 1978), examining street-corner life at “Jelly’s,” a South Side Chicago bar.