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

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University of California Press, 15 nov. 2023 - 260 sidor
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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Introduction
1
Cannibalism 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆
9
Corporal Control 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒐
33
Conspiracy I 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝑲𝑲 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕
57
Conspiracy II 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒖𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏
108
Contamination 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔
137
ConsumerCorporate Conflict 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒚 𝒊𝒕
165
Crack 𝑺𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔
180
Conclusion From Cannibalism to Crack
202
Continuing Concerns
221
Notes
229
Bibliography
245
Index
255
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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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