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100 1 _aSchrift, Melissa.
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245 1 0 _aBecoming Melungeon
_bMaking an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South.
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260 _aLincoln :
_bUNP - Nebraska,
_c(c)2013.
300 _a1 online resource (233 pages)
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505 0 0 _aCover; 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.
520 0 _aAppalachian 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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650 4 _aMelungeons
_xAppalachian Mountains, Southern
_xEthnic identity.
650 4 _aMelungeons
_xAppalachian Mountains, Southern
_xHistory.
650 4 _aMelungeons
_xAppalachian Mountains, Southern
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aMelungeons
_zAppalachian Region, Southern
_xEthnic identity.
650 0 _aMelungeons
_zAppalachian Region, Southern
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMelungeons
_zAppalachian Region, Southern
_xSocial conditions.
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