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    Becoming Melungeon : Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South (2013)
    Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska
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    ISBN: 9780803271616 , 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 ; Appalachian Region, Southern ; Melungeons History ; Appalachian Region, Southern ; Melungeons Social conditions ; Appalachian Region, Southern ; Melungeons Social conditions ; Melungeons History ; Melungeons Ethnic identity ; Melungeons Appalachian Mountains, Southern ; Ethnic identity ; Melungeons Appalachian Mountains, Southern ; History ; Melungeons Appalachian Mountains, Southern ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Melungeons ; History ; Southern Appalachian Region ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; 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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    Southern Heritage on Display : Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism (2010)
    Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press
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    ISBN: 9780817352868 , 9780817382254 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 313 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780817382254
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 394.20976
    Abstract: This provocative collection draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to shed light on the role that public ceremonies play in affirming or debunking cultural identities associated with the South. W. J. Cash's 1941 observation that ""there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them"" is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its ""lost cause"" tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals--parades, cook-offs, kinship homecom-ings, church assem...
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