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
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Cannibalism: ‘They doe eat each other alive’
2. Corporal Control: ‘They want to beat us, burn us,
whatever they can do’
3· Conspiracy I: ‘They … the KKK … did it’
4. Conspiracy II: ‘They … the powers that
be … want to keep us down’
5· Contamination: ‘They want to do more than just
kill us’
6. Consumer/Corporate Conflict: ‘They won’t get me to
buy it’
7· Crack: ‘See, they want us to take all of those drugs’
8. Conclusion: From Cannibalism to Crack
Epilogue: Continuing Concerns
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
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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