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Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim

Title
Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim / Justin Gifford.
Author
Gifford, Justin, 1975-
Publication
[Prince Frederick] : HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, [2015].
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  • Jackson, JD
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Description
1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 24 min., 50 sec.)) : digital
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 materiaĺ⁰₄including 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.
Subject
  • Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992
  • African American authors > Biography
  • African Americans > Chicago > Biography
  • Pimps > Chicago > Biography
  • African American authors
  • African Americans
  • Pimps
  • Illinois > Chicago
Genre/Form
  • Audiobooks.
  • Biography.
ISBN
  • 9781622317660 (electronic audio bk.)
  • 1622317661 (electronic audio bk.)
OCLC
  • 915966752
  • 915966752
Author
Gifford, Justin, 1975- author.
Title
Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim / Justin Gifford.
Publisher
[Prince Frederick] : HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, [2015].
Edition
Unabridged.
Playing Time
102450
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Performer
Read by J. D. Jackson.
Source of description
Online resource; title from MP3 title screen (Overdrive, viewed on August 7, 2015).
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