Reading Questions to Iceberg Slim’s Pimp:

 

1)     How does the author describe how he became a pimp?

2)     What in his family background does he make relevant to this?

3)     What is the relationship he has towards his mother, his girlfriend, and the women who are working for him?

4)     What is the relationship he has to other men?

5)     Where does he learn to pimp?

6)     Does the author show signs of remorse about the violence he describes?

7)     What does race have to do with the pimping business?

8)     How does Iceberg Slim justify his violent abuse of women?

9)     What is women’s perspective?

10)What is the relationship between sex, money, and power in the pimping milieu?

11)What is the economic logic of the game?

12)How does a pimp gain power?

 

For the extra credit assignment, please answer the question below:

 

How does Iceberg Slim’s account of pimping differ from that provided by Claire Sterk’s Tricking and Tripping, and how does it compare to Garcia Marquez’s book, My Melancholy Whores? Compare these books in terms of whether or how these books portray pimping and prostitution as a social problem.

 

The paper should be about 2-3 pages long. For one page, you will get up to 1% credit, for 2 pages you will get up to 2% credit, and for 3 pages, you will get up to three percent credit.