Becoming Melungeon Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South.

By:

Schrift, Melissa [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780803271616

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

E184 .B436 2013

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Subject: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	E184.44 S37 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn830162286

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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