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

Name: I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture
Author: Patricia A. Turner
ISBN: 9780520089365

Author Patricia A. Turner

Publisher University of California Press

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Author(s)Patricia A. Turner

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN / ASIN0520089367

ISBN-139780520089365

MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

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Ku Klux Klan-owned companies. Sodas that cause sterility. A military conspiracy to infect Africans with AIDS. These rumors reverberate through Black America. Now, Patricia Turner presents a groundbreaking, comprehensive look at how rumors translate white oppression into folk warnings throughout the African-American community.