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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.
Price: $30.95
Pages: 260
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
28 September 1993
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520089365
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"A feast for those interested in historical and modern black folklore. . . . Engaging."
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).
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
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