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

Name: I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture
Brand: University of California Press
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paperback – August 25, 1994

by Turner, Patricia A. A.

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ISBN-13: 9780520089365 ISBN-10: 0520089367

Publisher

University of California Press

Binding

paperback

Published

August 25, 1994

Weight

1.0 lbs

Dimensions

22.10×1.80×15.00 cm

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture by Turner, Patricia A. A.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780520089365.

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 to respond to a hostile dominant culture.