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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Rumor in African-American Culture
By:Patricia A. Turner
Publisher:University of California Press
Print ISBN:9780520089365
eText ISBN:9780520915572
Edition:1
Copyright:1993
Format:Reflowable

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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 to respond to a hostile dominant culture.