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9 produkter
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Rumor in African-American Culture
Häftad, 1993
386 kr
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This book divides into two basic parts. In Chapters 1 and 2 I discuss historical examples of "rumor" discourse and suggest whey many blacks have--for good reason--channeled beliefs about race relations into familiar formulae, ones developed as early as the time of the first contact between …
Whispers on the Color Line
Rumor and Race in America
Av Gary Alan Fine, Patricia A. Turner
Häftad, 2004
306 kr
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Legends are arguably the most common narrative form of folklore in American society. From sex acts to business transactions, from fashion to food, from heroes to heroin, rumors and legends take on every charged topic. Children circulate texts about toys and candy; teenagers share stories about sex, …
Trash Talk
Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2022
819 kr
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What racist rumors about Barack Obama tell us about the intractability of racism in American politics.Barack Obama and his family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lore have occurred in every national election …
Trash Talk
Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2022
263 kr
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What racist rumors about Barack Obama tell us about the intractability of racism in American politics.Barack Obama and his family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lore have occurred in every national election …
Trash Talk
Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
E-bok, 2022
433 kr
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What racist rumors about Barack Obama tell us about the intractability of racism in American politics. Barack Obama and his family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lore have occurred in every national election …
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Rumor in African-American Culture
E-bok, 1993
454 kr
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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. I Heard …
Whispers on the Color Line
Rumor and Race in America
Av Patricia A. Turner, Gary Alan Fine
E-bok, 2001
520 kr
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Legends are arguably the most common narrative form of folklore in American society. From sex acts to business transactions, from fashion to food, from heroes to heroin, rumors and legends take on every charged topic. Children circulate texts about toys and candy; teenagers share stories about sex, …
Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies
Black Images and Their Influence on Culture
Häftad, 2002
282 kr
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Exploring white American popular culture of the past century and a half, Turner details subtle and not-so-subtle negative tropes and images of black people, from Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima to jokes about Michael Jackson and Jesse Jackson. She feels that far too little has changed in terms of white …
Crafted Lives
Stories and Studies of African American Quilters
Inbunden, 2009
412 kr
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In Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters Patricia A. Turner explores the culture and recent history of African Americans through the creations and wisdom of nine quilters. Turner profiles quilters who exemplify the range of black women and men dedicated to the making of …
