WEPMAN, Dennis, NEWMAN, Ronald, and BINDERMAN, Murray. The Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler.

(Philadelphia, PA): University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 23.4cm by 15.7cm. Cool ethnographic and literary study of African American street culture in the United States. The volume compiles oral histories, vernacular speech, poetry, and narrative fragments drawn from interviews and field research conducted with figures engaged in urban hustling economies. The book examines the symbolic systems, codes of conduct, language, and mythologies that structure street life, presenting hustling as a cultural formation with its own internal ethics, storytelling traditions, and poetic expression. Blending anthropology, sociology, and literary documentation, the work attempts to record and interpret a marginalised oral culture through its own linguistic forms rather than through external academic abstraction. A very good copy in dust jacket. jacket with some chips and edgewear.