A Portrait of "the Life"

Abrahams. R.D. (1970a) Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia. Chicago: Aldine.

--- ( 1970b) Positively Black Englewood Cliffs. N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Beck. R. (1971) The Naked Soul of Ieeberg Slim. Los Angeles: Holloway House.

--- ( 1969a) Pimp: The Story of my Life Los Angeles : Holloway House. (as lceberg Slim)

--- ( 1969b) Mama Black Widow Los Angeles: Holloway House. (as Iceberg Slim)

———( 1969c) Trick Baby Los Angeles: Holloway House. (as Iceberg Slim)

Dundes. A. [ed.] (1973) Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore. Englewood Cliffs. N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Hall. S. and B. Adelman (1972) Gentlemen of Leisure. New York : New American Library.

Hudson, J. (1972) " The hustling ethic," in T. Kochman (ed.) Rappin' and Styling Out Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press.

Ianni, F.A.J. (1974) Black Mafia. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Jackson, B. (1972) "Circus and street: psychosocial aspects of the black toasts." J. of Amer. Folklore 83.

King, W. , Jr. (1972) "The game," in T. Kochman (ed.) Rappin' and Styling Out. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press.

Milner, R. and C. Milner (1972) Black Players. Boston: Little, Brown .

Wepman, D. , R.B. Newman , and M.B. Binderman (1974) "Toasts: the black urban folk poetry." J. of Amer. Folklore 87.

--- (forthcoming) An Annotated Collection of Toasts. (in preparation)