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.