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Cecil Brown, novelist, screenwriter, and scholar, was educated at Columbia University (B.A.), University of Chicago (M.A.), and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.). His other published work includes The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, Days Without Weather, Coming Up Down Home, and Stagolee Shot Billy. Cecil Brown has been awarded a W.E. Dubois Fellowship from Harvard University. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, specializing in African-American folklore, oral narrative, and literature. In the spring of 2006, he initiated a new class, ""Richard Pryor, Humor, and American Society.""
'Black women are better whores, ' proclaims a character -- who is one herself -- in I, Stagolee (North Atlantic, $15.95), Cecil Brown's second book about an 1895 murder that spawned a ballad that some say spawned rap. Brown's Berkeley Ph.D is in narrative African-American literature and folklore; this rich tale probes a sensitive, intelligent pimp -- We pimps ... protected our women against the brutal police. ... Never hit a woman and she will always find her way back to you -- who owned sixty Stetsons and killed a man for a hat. The word mack, we learn, comes from the French maquereau -- mackerel, snif snif. --East Bay Express I, Stagolee puts the 'e' in enjoyable and the 'e' in exquisite. A great novel. - film director Melvin Van Peebles Cecil Brown's brilliant book provides a historical context for the current pimp craze. -novelist Ishmael Reed With humor, zest, imagination, and affection, Stagolee (storyteller and participant) tells us straight out who really shot whom and w
