Patricia A. Turner

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (eBook, ePUB)

Rumor in African-American Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520915572
• Artikelnr.: 69100498

Autorenporträt

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).