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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Gifford, Justin, 1975- author.     Subjects     Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992.     African American authors -- Biography.     African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.     Pimps -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gifford, Justin, 1975- author.       by title:      Street poison [elect...         MARC Display

Street poison [electronic resource] : the biography of Iceberg Slim / Justin Gifford. by Gifford, Justin, 1975- author. [Prince Frederick] : HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, [2015]. Subjects Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992.   African American authors -- Biography.   African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.   Pimps -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=8369C33D-99F0-4EA3-A67B-27D1B615376F This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/2278202-StreetPoison.mp3 Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8369c33d-99f0-4ea3-a67b-27d1b615376f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1294-1/{8369C33D-99F0-4EA3-A67B-27D1B615376F}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781622317660 (electronic audio bk.) 1622317661 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 24 min., 50 sec.)) : digital Edition:  Unabridged. Requests:  0 Summary:  From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture. You can't understand contemporary black (and even American) culture without reckoning with Iceberg Slim and his many acolytes and imitators. Literature professor Justin Gifford has been researching the life and work of Robert Beck for a decade, culminating in Street Poison, a colorful and compassionate biography of one of the most complicated figures in twentieth-century literature. Drawing on a wealth of archival material04including FBI files, prison records, and interviews with Beck, his wife, and his daughters Gifford explores the sexual trauma and racial violence Beck endured that led to his reinvention as Iceberg Slim, one of America's most infamous pimps of the 1940s and '50s. From pimping to penning his profoundly influential confessional autobiography, Pimp, to his involvement in radical politics, Gifford's biography illuminates the life and works of one of American literature's most unique renegades.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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