I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture
Patricia A. Turner
278 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0520089367
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Language: English
Publish: August 25, 1994
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.