... Suspiciously, the 4,000 Jews who worked there had stayed home from work that day (Hari, 2002). Conspiracy thinking (or rumor believing) is bound to take place in an enormous country filled with diversity, causing ethnic groups to be suspicious of each other, and where political propaganda, commercial ... , they all seem to have the same culprit, white America. This intriguing subject has prompted many professionals, like Turner, to research these rumors. Books like, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African American Culture- and "Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in A...

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