I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Patricia A. Turner
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
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.
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 resp
Kundenbewertungen
20th century american race relations, african american rumors, contamination, race relations, 20th century american culture, corporal control, african americans, animosity, european whites, black americans, systematic racism, race in america, rumor, sub saharan africans, african american culture, rumor discourse, sociology, contemporary legends, corporate conflict, cannibalism, crack, ethnic demographic studies, castration, black bodies, conspiracy, consumer conflict