Category: robin g kelley

Literacy in Iceberg Slim’s "Pimp: The Story of My Life"

A couple of weeks ago, I read Justin Gifford’s Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim. It is not my intention, with this post, to review Gifford’s book. If you would like to see some reviews, check out Kiese Laymon’s, Robin D. G. Kelley’s, and my own upcoming review in African American Review. After reading the biography, I went back to look at Robert … Read More Literacy in Iceberg Slim’s "Pimp: The Story of My Life"