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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.Â
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9780520081857 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book divides into two basic parts.
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9780520089365 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1994), cover price $30.95
Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780813921556 | Univ of Virginia Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: 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.
9780385467841, titled "Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture" | Anchor Books, September 1, 1994, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A study by an African-American studies scholar notes stereotyping objects in popular culture that depict blacks as servile, primitive, or simpleminded and explains how the subtle influences of such seemingly harmless images reinforce antiblack attitudes.
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9780813317588 | Westview Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Examines generational differences in political issues such as voting behavior, activism, and criminal justice
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9780813317595 | Westview Pr, December 7, 1995, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Examines generational differences in political issues such as voting behavior, activism, and criminal justice
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9780520209886 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Travels the nation's color line in search of myths, rumors, urban legends, and half truths that cloud relations between the races.
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9780520228559 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $34.95
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9781456020163 | Publishamerica Inc, October 12, 2010, cover price $34.95
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