I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture by Patricia A. Turner

I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture

Patricia A. Turner

260 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction sociology emotional reflective medium-paced
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine explores how rumors that run rife in African-American communities, concerning such issues as AIDS, the Ku Klux Klan and FBI conspiracies, translate white oppression into folk warnings, and are used by the community...

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