Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing

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Con, 42; Mama Black Widow, 41, 180; The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, 42; Night Train to Sugar Hill, 42, 64–65; Pimp: The Story of my Life, 8, 10, 40–41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49–64, 65, 68, 69, 82, 86, 87, 88, 91, 94, 104–106, 110, 124, 139, 153, 154, 161, 162, 163, 164, 168; Reflections, 42; Trick Baby, 41, 65, 104; writing process of, 63–64 Black and Nobel Books, 155, 157 black crime literature, 2–3, 5–9, 48, 72–73, 91–94, 103, 124, 177–181; contradictory impulses in, 4–5, 8, 10, 45, 63, 177, 179–181; definition of, 2; detective fiction and, 16–18, 121–122; geographic shifts in, 30, 52, 54, 69, 70, 78; literary marketplace and, 2, 3, 8–9, 47–52, 87, 153, 172–177, 180–181; material basis of, 15, 48–49, 52, 69–70, 102, 154–155, 156–157, 159, 180–181; pimp autobiography and, 5, 9, 10, 11, 39, 41, 42–45, 54, 55–56, 63, 65, 68, 70, 71, 74, 82, 86, 92–93, 95, 103, 104, 105–106, 124, 161, 164, 168; Players and, 127–129, 131–132, 134–135; protest fiction and, 68–72, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83–84, 103, 104–105; serialization and, 102–103; street literature and, 153, 154, 155–156, 160, 171; as a theater for black issues, 6–7, 15, 34, 38–39, 49, 51, 65–67, 69, Abbott’s Monthly, 15 Adam Magazine, 47 Adorno, Theodor, and Max Horkheimer, 7 Alexander, Caleb, 176, 177 Alexander Books, 157 Allen, Eddie, 78 Angelou, Maya, 12, 128 Araya, Zuedi, 12 Atlanta, 98 Atria Books, 157, 165 autobiography, 11, 104, 105–106, 124, 161, 164, 168; Robert Beck and, 5, 9, 10, 39, 41, 42–45, 54, 63, 65, 70, 74, 103, 104, 164; Donald Goines and, 68, 71, 82, 86, 92–93, 95. See also confessional Aveilhe, Art, 136–137 Baldwin, James, 7, 12, 52, 128, 134, 135 Baltimore, 31, 69, 98, 107 Beauregard, Robert, 14 Beck, Camille, 64 Beck, Robert (Iceberg Slim), 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 40–67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 87, 95, 97, 98, 99, 102, 103, 104–105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 114, 115, 122, 127, 128, 129, 132, 134, 135, 141, 145, 154–155, 156, 159–160, 161, 164, 165, 171, 180; Airtight Willie and Me, 42; Death Wish, 42; literary marketplace and, 10, 39, 44–45, 46, 47, 48–52, 65–66; Long White Index 200 / index class, 2, 5, 7, 59, 61, 72–73, 83, 132, 169, 171, 174; class consciousness, 11, 81, 166; class division, 2, 5, 6, 83, 98; middle class, 4, 5, 17, 53, 54, 59, 83, 98, 129, 131, 164; Pimp and, 42, 45, 53, 59–60, 62–63; pulp magazines and, 19–20; working class, 8, 9, 31, 34, 42, 45, 48, 49, 79, 81, 131, 178 Cleveland, 69 Coleman, Wanda, 3, 4, 76–77, 115, 168; Players and, 11, 12, 128, 129, 136, 139–140, 143, 144, 146 Collins, Patricia Hill, 58 Colored American Magazine, 130, 131 confessionals, 51; Never Die Alone and, 88, 91, 92–93; Pimp and, 50–51, 52; sex confessionals, 48, 50 consumer culture, 2, 7, 19, 44, 46, 48–49, 73, 93, 114, 129–131, 133, 141, 150, 155, 156–157, 166, 170, 177, 178. See also capitalism; popular culture containment, 4, 46, 57, 59–61, 65–67, 79, 130, 134, 139, 142, 147, 150, 159, 178–179; literary response to, 10, 25–27, 30–31, 35–36, 40–41, 52–53, 61–63, 68–69, 70, 72, 78–79, 83–94, 97, 99, 101–102, 107–113, 115–118, 118–122, 124, 153, 156, 163–165, 168, 169, 171; literary marketplace and, 11, 36–39, 46, 47, 49, 50–52, 71–72, 76, 83–91, 93–95, 103–104, 109, 124–125, 144–150, 153; spatial, 3, 11, 14–15, 22, 24–25, 26–27, 31–32, 38, 44, 47, 50, 53, 54–56, 62–63, 69–70, 79, 83–84, 86–87, 98, 102, 112–114, 122, 128, 132, 151, 152, 154–155, 171–172, 179. See also ghettos; housing policies and discriminatory practices; housing projects; prisons cool, 6, 63, 128, 129, 131, 132–133, 163, 166–168, 178; subversive potential of 1–2, 10, 45, 54, 55, 59–60, 134, 152, 168, 178 Cooper, Clarence, Jr., 180 Crisis, 130, 131 Crouch, Stanley, 11, 12, 129, 143, 146; “Crouch on Jazz...