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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. |
- Baker & Taylor
Tells the story of Otis Tilson, a transvestite living a life of pimping and tricking amid the violence and crime of the homosexual underground. - Simon and Schuster
âIceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts Iâve ever heard in my life.â âDave Chappelle, from his Netflix special The Bird Revelation
The most gritty and real illustration of the black ghetto ever told, from the only man capable of telling it, Iceberg Slim, bestselling author of Pimp. Iceberg Slimâs story is now depicted in a major motion picture distributed worldwide.
Mama Black Widow tells the tragic story of Otis Tilson, a stunning black drag queen trapped in a cruel queer ghetto underworld. In hopes of escaping the racial bigotry and economic injustice of the South, Otisâ family journeys north from their plantation to an urban promised land. Once in Chicago Otis and his brother and sisters become prisoners to a wasteland of violence, crime, prostitution and rape. This is the gut-wrenching tale of the destruction of a family and the truest portrayal of homosexuality in the ghetto ever told.