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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Turner, Patricia A.
Published: 09/28/1993
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520089365
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.05w x 0.83d