I heard it through the grapevine : rumor in African-American culture / Patricia A. Turner.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.Description: xvi, 260 p. : ill. 23 cmISBN:- 520081854
- GR 111.A47 .T856 1993
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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
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