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1971 ARCHIVE: "Iceberg Slim DECONSTRUCTS the PIMP & The BRUTALIZATION of Black Women"

Name: 1971 ARCHIVE: "Iceberg Slim DECONSTRUCTS the PIMP & The BRUTALIZATION of Black Women"
Uploaded: 2021-05-01T18:38:06+00:00
Duration: 24 min 59 s
Channel: Hezakya Newz & Films
Description: This archival digital transfer captures a 1971 episode of Black Journal featuring an unprecedented, unvarnished interview with Robert Beck, universally kno

Hezakya Newz & Films · May 1, 2021 · published to YouTube

This archival digital transfer captures a 1971 episode of Black Journal featuring an unprecedented, unvarnished interview with Robert Beck, universally known by his street moniker, Iceberg Slim. Filmed in the aftermath of his seminal book Pimp: The Story of My Life, the footage captures Beck actively renouncing his 25-year career in the underworld. Addressing an audience of students at Malcolm X College in Chicago, Beck explicitly denounces the "negative glamour" of the street hustle and apologizes for the "brutalization of black womanhood". The documentary intersperses Beck’s raw confessions with dramatic sequences performed by Chicago's Kuumba Workshop and an intimate, unfiltered conversation between Beck and a former member of his "stable". Throughout the broadcast, Beck utilizes the political rhetoric of Malcolm X to frame both the pimp and the sex worker not as glamorous o

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