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I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture

I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture

by Turner, Patricia A
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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.

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Pub dateSep 28, 1993
ISBN-100520089367
ISBN-139780520089365
LanguageEnglish
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