ISBN:
9780803271616
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0803271611
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (233 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schrift, Melissa Becoming Melungeon : Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
DDC:
305.805074
Keywords:
Melungeons Ethnic identity
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Appalachian Region, Southern
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Melungeons History
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Appalachian Region, Southern
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Melungeons Social conditions
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Appalachian Region, Southern
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Melungeons Social conditions
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Melungeons History
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Melungeons Ethnic identity
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Melungeons Appalachian Mountains, Southern
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Ethnic identity
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Melungeons Appalachian Mountains, Southern
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History
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Melungeons Appalachian Mountains, Southern
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Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Melungeons
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History
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Southern Appalachian Region
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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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