I heard it through the grapevine : rumor in African-American culture /
Turner, Patricia Ann, -1955
I heard it through the grapevine : rumor in African-American culture / Patricia A. Turner. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. - xvi, 260 p. : ill. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.
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. www.alibris.com
520081854
African Americans--United States.
Rumor
Urban folklore--United States.
GR 111.A47 / .T856 1993
I heard it through the grapevine : rumor in African-American culture / Patricia A. Turner. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. - xvi, 260 p. : ill. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.
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. www.alibris.com
520081854
African Americans--United States.
Rumor
Urban folklore--United States.
GR 111.A47 / .T856 1993
