Becoming Melungeon
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Becoming Melungeon
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Author : Melissa Schrift
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-08-01
Becoming Melungeon written by Melissa Schrift and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-01 with History categories.
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.
Melungeons
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Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2005
Melungeons written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
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.
Tennessee Historical Quarterly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Tennessee Historical Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Electronic journals categories.
A Pueblo Social History
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Author : John Allen Ware
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
A Pueblo Social History written by John Allen Ware and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Ethnoarchaeology categories.
"In A Pueblo Social History, John Ware challenges modern anthropologists to break down the walls between archaeology and ethnography in order to obtain a more complete understanding of Pueblo prehistory in the American Southwest."--publisher.
The Melungeons
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Author : Bonnie Sage Ball
language : en
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Release Date : 1992
The Melungeons written by Bonnie Sage Ball and has been published by The Overmountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "mélange," meaning a mixture.
Melungeons
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Author : Pat Spurlock Elder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Melungeons written by Pat Spurlock Elder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
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.
Kinfolks
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Author : Lisa Alther
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Kinfolks written by Lisa Alther and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this dazzling, hilarious memoir, best-selling author ofKinflicks Lisa Alther chronicles her search for the missing--oftenmysterious--branches of her family tree.Most of us grow up thinking we know who we are and where we come from. LisaAlther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia, and everyday they reenacted the Civil War at home in East Tennessee. Then one nighta grizzled babysitter with brown teeth told Lisa about the Melungeons:six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in cliff caves outside town.Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of herown, Lisa learned that the Melungeons were actually a group of dark-skinnedpeople--some with extra thumbs--living in isolated pockets in the South.But who were they? Where did they come from? Were they the descendants ofSir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony, or of shipwrecked Portuguese or Turkishsailors? Or were they the children of European frontiersmen, Africanslaves, and Native Americans? Theories abounded, but no one seemed to knowfor sure.Learning that a cousin had had his extra thumbs removed, Lisa set out todiscover who these mysterious Melungeons really were and why hergrandmother wouldn't let her visit their Virginia relatives. Were thereMelungeons in the family tree? Lisa assembled a hoard of clues over theyears, but DNA testing finally offered answers.Part sidesplitting travelogue, part how--and how not--to climb your familytree, Kinfolks shimmers with wicked humor, illustrating just howwacky and wonderful our human family really is.
The Melungeons
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Author : N. Brent Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: IET
Release Date : 1997
The Melungeons written by N. Brent Kennedy and has been published by IET this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
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.
Ancestors And Enemies
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Author : Donald N. Yates
language : en
Publisher: Panther`s Lodge Publishers
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Ancestors And Enemies written by Donald N. Yates and has been published by Panther`s Lodge Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with History categories.
As the twentieth century drew to an end and the millennium approached, a new ethnic category was invented in the South. The Melungeons were born thrashing and squawling into the American consciousness. They were a tri-racial clan hidden away in the hills and hollers of Lower Appalachia with a genetic predisposition to six fingers and Mediterranean diseases and an unsavory reputation for moonshining, counterfeiting and secret cults. DNA studies showed they were probably descended from Portuguese colonists and had connections with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans and Romani (Gypsies). Were they the country's oldest indigenous people? They soon got on the radar of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Recognition, which fought the nascent identity movement tooth and nail. This collection by two researchers involved in the explosive controversy tells the story of the Melungeon Movement in a coherent, chronological fashion for the first time. Fourteen original illlustrations, ranging from Granny Dollar, the last Cherokee Indian in Northeast Alabama, to Luis Gomez, builder of the oldest standing Jewish residence in the United States, add interest to the portrayal of this mysterious and exotic ethnic community.
Melungeon Portraits
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Author : Tamara L. Stachowicz
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-04-04
Melungeon Portraits written by Tamara L. Stachowicz and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-04 with Social Science categories.
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.