I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture by Turner, Patricia A.

I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520089365)

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture by Turner, Patricia A.

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

$30.95
I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture by Turner, Patricia A.

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

$30.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Patricia A. Turner
ISBN-10: 0520089367
ISBN-13: 9780520089365
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 09/28/1993
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.05w x 0.83d
By Patricia A. Turner
By Patricia A. Turner
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Patricia A. Turner is Senior Dean of the College Dean/Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education; Professor, Department of African American Studies and World Arts and Culture at the University of California at Davis, and the author of Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture (1994).

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