I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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ISBN: 9780520081857 | 0520081854
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/1/1993

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Ku Klux Klan-owned companies. Sodas that cause sterility. A military conspiracy to infect Africans with AIDS. These rumors reverberate through Black America. Now, Patricia Turner presents a groundbreaking, comprehensive look at how rumors translate white oppression into folk warnings throughout the African-American community.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Cannibalism: "They doe eat each other alive"	p. 9
Corporal Control: "They want to beat us, burn us, whatever they can do"	p. 33
Conspiracy I: "They...the KKK...did it"	p. 57
Conspiracy II: "They...the powers that be...want to keep us down"	p. 108
Contamination: "They want to do more than just kill us"	p. 137
Consumer/Corporate Conflict: "They won't get me to buy it"	p. 165
Crack: "See, they want us to take all of those drugs"	p. 180
Conclusion: From Cannibalism to Crack	p. 202
Epilogue: Continuing Concerns	p. 221
Notes	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 255
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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