TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schrift,Melissa
TI  - Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
SN  - 9780803271616
AV  - E184 .B436 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - UNP - Nebraska
KW  - Melungeons
KW  - Appalachian Mountains, Southern
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Appalachian Region, Southern
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Race, Identity, and the Melungeon Legend; Chapter 1: Inventing the Melungeons; Chapter 2: Melungeons and Media Representation; Chapter 3: Playing the First Melungeons; Chapter 4: Becoming Melungeon; Chapter 5: The Mediterranean Mystique; Chapter 6: The Melungeon Core; Closing Thoughts; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Works Cited; Index; 2; b
N2  - Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown origins of these Melungeons are part of what drove this legend and generated myriad exotic origin theories. Though nobody self-identified as Melungeon before the 1960s, by the 1990s "Melungeonness" had become a full-fledged cultural phenomenon, resulting in a zealous online community and annual meetings where self-identified Melungeons ga
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