20th century american culture
20th century american race relations
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african american culture
african american rumors
african americans
animosity
Author_Patricia A. Turner
black americans
black bodies
cannibalism
castration
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conspiracy
consumer conflict
contamination
contemporary legends
corporal control
corporate conflict
crack
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ethnic demographic studies
european whites
race in america
race relations
rumor
rumor discourse
sociology
sub saharan africans
systematic racism
Product details
- ISBN 9780520089365
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 sub-Saharan Africans and European white. Then in Chapters 3-7 it explores the continuation of these issues in late-twentieth-century African-American rumors and contemporary legends, using examples collected in the field. Because Turner was able to monitor these contemporary legends as they unfolded and played themselves out, rigorous analysis was possible. What follows, then, is an examination of the themes common to these contemporary items and related historical ones, and an explanation for their persistence. Concerns about conspiracy, contamination, cannibalism, and castration--perceived threats to individual black bodies, which are then translated into animosity toward the race as a whole--run through nearly four hundred years of black contemporary legend material and prove remarkable tenacious.
Patricia A. Turner is Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of California at Davis and the author of Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture (1994).
