Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, and Sheila Frazier. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Exploration of Interracial Literature. Slim moved to California in the 1960s to pursue writing under the Iceberg Slim pen-name, but in normal life, changed his name to Robert Beck, taking the last name of the man his mother was married to at the time. From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom. At that point, he decided he could continue making money off trafficking by writing about it instead. Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness. 3.99 avg rating 12,132 ratings published 1967 54 editions. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1991: xi–xviii. Average rating 4.02 17,374 ratings 1,395 reviews shelved 50,801 times. “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. Other projects include the Wayback Machine, and. Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1967.īeck, Robert. Pimp by Iceberg Slim, Beck, Robert, 1967, Holloway House edition, in English. 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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