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Mama black widow / Iceberg Slim.
A young African American drag queen and his family move from the South to Chicago in hopes of escaping some of the discrimination and backwards thinking of the region; however, Chicago, in turn offers up its own plate of violence, crime, prostitution, and rape. Herein lies the sad tale of a family practically destroyed by the urban ghetto underground of 1930's and 40's Chicago.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781936399192 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1936399199 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 244 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: [New York] : Cash Money Content, 2013.
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| Subject: | Transvestites > Fiction. African American gay men > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Urban fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Iceberg Slim, also known as Robert Beck, was born in Chicago in 1918 and was initiated into the life of the pimp at age eighteen. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but dropped out to return to the streets of the South Side, where he remained, pimping until he was forty-two. After several stints in jail he decided to give up the life and turned to writing. Slim folded his life into the pages of seven books based on his life. Catapulted into the public eye, Slim became a new American hero, known for speaking the truth whether that truth was ugly, sexy, rude, or blunt. He published six more books based on his life and Slim died at age 73 in 1992; one day before the Los Angeles riots.