![]() Her name was Maude and she Georgied me around 1921. ![]() Most of all I wish to become a decent example for my children and for that wonderful woman in the grave, my mother. ![]() ![]() Perhaps one day I can win respect as a constructive human being. Perhaps my remorse for my ghastly life will diminish to the degree that within this one book I have been allowed to purge myself. Unfortunately, it would require the combined pages of a half-dozen books. I regret that it is impossible to recount to you all of my experiences as a pimp. The account of my brutality and cunning as a pimp will fill many of you with revulsion, however, if one intelligent, valuable young man or woman can be saved from the destructive slime then the displeasure I have given will have been outweighed by that individual’s use of his potential in a socially constructive manner. I will lay bare my life and thoughts as a pimp. New York: Perennial, 1993.In this book I will take you, the reader, with me into the secret inner world of the pimp. Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, and Thalmus Rasulala. Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, and Sheila Frazier. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Exploration of Interracial Literature. From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom. Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1991: xi–xviii. “Introduction.” Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South. The Black Underclass: Poverty, Unemployment and Entrapment of Ghetto Youth. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003.Įllison, Ralph. “Born in a Mighty Bad Land”: The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction. Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1969.īryant, Jerry H. Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1967.īeck, Robert. New York: Dell-Random House, 2000.īeck, Robert. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īaldwin, James. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. By doing so, Pimp became the ur-text to an emergent school of African American literature, sometimes relegated to “popular” status, which delineated the black community’s criminality and its underworld, paving the way for writers Donald Goines, Joe Nazel, and later Bishop Don Magic Juan. The work also became a blueprint for success in the black underworld. Its publication would be a watershed moment in African American literature (popular and otherwise), because it was one of few novels to address the contemporary problem of the urban, impoverished environment from the perspective of the criminal. The story of Iceberg Slim’s evolution from a young boy to the most respected and reviled pimp in America intrigued and inspired. Before the explosion of black cinema’s Blaxploitation era of Shaft (1971), Super Fly (1972), and Willie Dynamite (1974), Robert Beck, writing under the pseudonym Iceberg Slim, published Pimp, the Story of My Life (1967) to celebrate and to lament his twenty-four years as a panderer of female flesh.
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