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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 Paperback - 1993

by Turner, Patricia A. A

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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.

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  • Title I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture
  • Author Turner, Patricia A. A
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 260
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-09-28
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR004742360
  • ISBN 9780520089365 / 0520089367
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 6.05 x 0.83 in (22.83 x 15.37 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93017463
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.089

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Many modern American rumors, legends, and folk ideas about the origins and meaning of racial difference can be traced to the days of first contact between white English explorers and black sub-Saharan Africans.

From the rear cover

"Entertaining and absorbing. . . . Information that blacks and whites have about one another is largely based upon rumors. Turner's monumental work traces the origins of rumors that have often fomented tragedies in race relations since the early encounters between Europeans and Africans."--Ishmael Reed, author of Japanese by Spring

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About the author

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).