I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Rumor in African-American Culture

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Rumor in African-American Culture

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One Cannibalism “They doe eat each other alive”
  9. Chapter Two Corporal Control “They want to beat us, burn us, whatever they can do”
  10. Chapter Three Conspiracy I “They … the KKK … did it”
  11. Chapter Four Conspiracy II “They … the powers that he … want to keep us down”
  12. Chapter Five Contamination “They want to do more than just kill us”
  13. Chapter Six Consumer/Corporate Conflict “They won’t get me to buy it”
  14. Chapter Seven Crack “See, they want us to take all of those drugs”
  15. Chapter Eight Conclusion: From Cannibalism to Crack
  16. Epilogue: Continuing Concerns
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index