Justin Gifford

Associate Professor, Emeritus

University of Nevada, Reno

Author

Author of Revolution or Death: The Life of Eldridge CleaverStreet Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim, and Pimping Fictions

Teacher

Northern Nevada Correctional Center

Black Pulp FIction COllection

Including over 500 vintage and out-of-print titles by authors like Chester Himes, Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, and many other black writers from the 1950s-1990s, this is the largest known collection of black pulp fiction.

 
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Eldridge Cleaver in Exile

In the summer of 1969, Eldridge Cleaver, on the run from the FBI, arrived in Algiers as a fugitive. 50 years later, Justin Gifford traveled to North Africa to uncover his life and legacy.

 
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