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Author : Bonnie Sage Ball
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0932807747
The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "mélange," meaning a mixture.
Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0865548617
Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British, Protestant colonists who fought the Indians, tamed the wilderness, and brought "democracy"-or at least a representative republic-to North America. To the contrary, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman's research indicates the earliest settlers were of Mediterranean extraction, and of a Jewish or Muslim religious persuasion. Sometimes called "Melungeons," these early settlers were among the earliest nonnative "Americans" to live in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. For fear of discrimination-since Muslims, Jews, "Indians," and other "persons of color" were often disenfranchised and abused-the Melungeons were reticent regarding their heritage. In fact, over time, many of the Melungeons themselves "forgot" where they came from. Hence, today, the Melungeons remain the "last lost tribe in America," even to themselves. Yet, Hirschman, supported by DNA testing, genealogies, and a variety of historical documents, suggests that the Melungeons included such notable early Americans as Daniel Boone, John Sevier, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Andrew Jackson. Once lost, but now, forgotten no more.
Author : Wayne Winkler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061325497
Walking toward the Sunset is a historical examination of the Melungeons, a mixed-race group predominantly in southern Appalachia. Author Wayne Winkler reviews theories about the Melungeons, compares the Melungeons with other mixed-race groups, and incorporates the latest scientific research to present a comprehensive portrait.In his telling portrait, Winkler examines the history of the Melungeons and the ongoing controversy surrounding their mysterious origins. Employing historical records, news reports over almost two centuries, and personal interviews, Winkler tells the fascinating story of a people who did not fit the rigid racial categories of American society. Along the way, Winkler recounts the legal and social restrictions suffered by Melungeons and other mixed-race groups, particularly Virginia's 1924 Racial Integrity Act, and he reviews the negative effects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century magazine and journal articles on these reclusive people. Walking toward the Sunset documents the changes in public and private attitudes toward the Melungeons, the current debates over "Melungeon" identity, and the recent genetic studies that have attempted to shed light on the subject. But most importantly, Winkler relates the lives of families who were outsiders in their own communities, who were shunned and shamed, but who created a better life for their children, descendants who are now reclaiming the heritage that was hidden from them for generations.
Author : Lisa Alther
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611451764
The author looks for her father's family in Virginia. They may have belonged to a mysterious group known as the Melungeons.
Author : N. Brent Kennedy,Robyn Vaughan Kennedy
Publisher : IET
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0865545162
The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "mélange," meaning a mixture. Includes lists of common surnames for Melungeons, Brass Ankles, Carmel Indians, Cubans, Guineas, Lumbee/Croatan Indians, Pamunkey/Powhatan Indians, and Redbones.
Author : Katherine Vande Brake
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0881461504
Armed with literacies of difference stemming from both their natures and their social situations, this book shows how Melungeons are using literacy practices to embrace the difference that they cannot escape.
Author : Melissa Schrift
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496210067
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 gathered to discuss shared genealogy and history. Although today Melungeons are commonly identified as the descendants of underclass whites, freed African Americans, and Native Americans, this ethnic identity is still largely a social construction based on local tradition, myth, and media. In Becoming Melungeon, Melissa Schrift examines the ways in which the Melungeon ethnic identity has been socially constructed over time by various regional and national media, plays, and other forms of popular culture. Schrift explores how the social construction of this legend evolved into a fervent movement of a self-identified ethnicity in the 1990s. This illuminating and insightful work examines the shifting social constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity both in the local context of the Melungeons and more broadly in an attempt to understand the formation of ethnic groups and identity in the modern world.
Author : Katherine Vande Brake
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0865547211
Vande Brake surveys Appalachian fiction and finds a suprising number of Melungeon characters lurking in the pages of many Southern writers.
Author : Tamara L. Stachowicz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476631639
At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons--a Central Appalachian multiracial group believed to be of Native American, African and European origins--remains controversial. Who is Melungeon, how do we know and what does that mean? In a series of interviews with individuals who claim Melungeon heritage, the author finds common threads that point to shared history, appearance and values, and explores how we decide who we are and what kind of proof we need.
Author : Gigi Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692372083
Author : Jeffrey Scott Holland
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781402754388
A guide to the odd and interesting history, places, and people in Kentucky.
Author : John S. Kessler,Donald B. Ball
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Highland County (Ohio)
ISBN : 0865547009
Kessler and Ball have written the definitive book on the Carmel Melungeon settlement in Highland, Ohio. Available in both hardback and paperback.
Author : Jim Callahan
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : History
ISBN : 157072167X
This is a history of the most well-known and studied group of Melungeons in the United States, the community in the Newman's Ridge area of Hancock County, Tennessee. The author is a descendant of the core group of Melungions from that community, related through his mother to the Mullins, Collins and Goings families.
Author : Pat Spurlock Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89081281107
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group which lived in the mountains in the southeastern United States. This work contains an explanation of their origins as well as an examination of myths and legends about them. Also contains information about Melungeon and Melungeon-related surnames.
Author : Jeff Bahr,Troy Taylor,Loren Coleman
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1402739427
