Exclusive: what Elijah Anderson thinks about the way his work is cited by Walsh & Yun (2017)

Yale University sociology professor Elijah Anderson is known for his 1999 book Code of the street, and the 1994 Atlantic Monthly article on which it is based. When I was recently re-reading through the 2017 paper by Walsh & Yun (which I previously critiqued on this blog), I noticed that his work was cited a couple times by the authors of the paper. Given that Callie Burt, in her critique of Walsh & Yun's paper, accuses them of "selectively [citing] passages from prominent African American scholars Elijah Anderson and Orlando Patterson in decontextualized ways", I decided to ask Anderson himself how he thinks about how Walsh & Yun cite his work in their paper. So I emailed him this question (verbatim): 
"I wanted to ask you a question about this paper, which was published last year in the Journal of Criminal Justice:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047235217300880 The question is: do you think it accurately represents your work that it cites (e.g. "The Code of the Streets" (the Atlantic, 1994))?"

He replied with this answer (which he sent after I emailed him a PDF of the article at his request) (also copied verbatim):

"Writers who assume my ethnographic analysis of the “code of the street” is “racist,” I believe, have a quite limited appreciation and understanding of the ethnographic method.  I suggest you review my 2002 AJS piece, “The Ideological Critique," written in response to Loic Wacquant’s criticisms.  The “code…” is a human response to the exigencies of life in a distressed social environment in which residents, and especially youth, believe that the wider authorities, especially law enforcement, have effectively abdicated their civic responsibilities to the local communities.  Hence, “street justice” fills the void and “street credibility” comes to matter a good deal in the course of everyday life.  Ethnography is the systematic description of culture, a set of shared understandings, or ‘local knowledge,’ that emerges as a human population deals with the demands of everyday life.  I could say more, but I hope this enough for you to get the picture.  The writer of the piece you sent seems to have a very limited appreciation of ethnography, and the piece seems to reflect this."

My notes:

The 2002 AJS piece he's talking about (which is actually called "The Ideologically Driven Critique") can be found here.