TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner, Patricia Ann,
TI  - I heard it through the grapevine: rumor in African-American culture 
SN  - 520081854
AV  - GR 111.A47 .T856 1993
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - United States
KW  - Rumor
KW  - Urban folklore
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -