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Melungeons and Other Pioneer Families

Author : Jack Harold Goins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Melungeons and Other Pioneer Families written by Jack Harold Goins and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and genealogy of Melungeon families who settled first in Virginia and later in Tennessee. Hezekiah Minor was born in Virginia around 1770. He married Elizabeth Going or Goins in 1795. Children included Lewis, John, Hezekiah, Elizabeth and Zachariah. John married Susan or Sukie Going or Goins. Their children included Zachariah, John, Wilson, Ada, Joseph, Mary and Jane. Another son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth, Zachariah married Aggie Sizemore. The author's grandfather, Harrison Goins was born in 1880 in Tennessee. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist Association, as were other Melungeons.

The Malungeons

Author : Will Allen Dromgoole
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353426061
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Malungeons written by Will Allen Dromgoole and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America

Author : Mwalimu J. Shujaa
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506331696
Total Pages : 1951 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America written by Mwalimu J. Shujaa and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 1951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity. FEATURES: A two-volume A-to-Z work, available in a choice of print or electronic formats 350 signed entries, each concluding with Cross-references and Further Readings 150 figures and photos Front matter consisting of an Introduction and a Reader’s Guide organizing entries thematically to more easily guide users to related entries Signed articles concluding with cross-references

Through the Back Door

Author : Katherine Vande Brake
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881461503
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Through the Back Door written by Katherine Vande Brake and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

From Anatolia to Appalachia

Author : Joseph Mendelsohn Scolnick
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547513
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis From Anatolia to Appalachia by : Joseph Mendelsohn Scolnick

Download or read book From Anatolia to Appalachia written by Joseph Mendelsohn Scolnick and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkic people have been migrating to America for many centuries, but this significant influx has been largely unrecognized. In "From Anatolia to Appalachia, Scolnick and Kennedy initiate a dialogue regarding this neglected area of American history and culture. This volume begins the communication with an essay reviewing existing evidence followed by interviews with knowledgeable persons about selected aspects of the population movements. An introduction and conclusion give focus and unity to the various elements of the dialogue. It is anticipated that this and subsequent volumes will(1) give information regarding studies of the movements of Turkic peoples to America; (2) broaden understanding of American history and society; (3) allow many, especially in the Southeast Atlantic region of the US, to better appreciate their background and place in American society; (4) stimulate interest in the main subject or aspects of it, both in the US and abroad; (5) tie together disparate aspects of the subject as well as the persons studying them; and(6) add to the general knowledge regarding migrations of peoples over many centuries. In sum, this dialogue intends not only to inform and interest others, but also to pull together available research on the subject and stimulate new research in this and related areas of study.

Walking Toward the Sunset

Author : Wayne Winkler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Walking Toward the Sunset written by Wayne Winkler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Kinfolks

Author : Lisa Alther
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611451760
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Kinfolks written by Lisa Alther and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author looks for her father's family in Virginia. They may have belonged to a mysterious group known as the Melungeons.

What Blood Won’t Tell

Author : Ariela J. Gross
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037979
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book What Blood Won’t Tell written by Ariela J. Gross and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them. When she sued for her freedom, witnesses assured the jury that she was white, and that they would have known if she had a drop of African blood. Morrison’s court trial—and many others over the last 150 years—involved high stakes: freedom, property, and civil rights. And they all turned on the question of racial identity. Over the past two centuries, individuals and groups (among them Mexican Americans, Indians, Asian immigrants, and Melungeons) have fought to establish their whiteness in order to lay claim to full citizenship in local courtrooms, administrative and legislative hearings, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Like Morrison’s case, these trials have often turned less on legal definitions of race as percentages of blood or ancestry than on the way people presented themselves to society and demonstrated their moral and civic character. Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Ariela Gross’s book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society. This book reminds us that the imaginary connection between racial identity and fitness for citizenship remains potent today and continues to impede racial justice and equality.

The Melungeons

Author : N. Brent Kennedy
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 9780865545168
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Melungeons written by N. Brent Kennedy and published by IET. This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Becoming Melungeon

Author : Melissa Schrift
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496210069
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Melungeon written by Melissa Schrift and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

When Scotland Was Jewish

Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786455225
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book When Scotland Was Jewish written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non–Celtic influence on Scotland’s history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland’s history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland’s identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors’ wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.

Melungeons

Author : Pat Spurlock Elder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Melungeons written by Pat Spurlock Elder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Melungeons

Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865548619
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Melungeons written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Pioneer Jews

Author : Harriet Rochlin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618001965
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Jews written by Harriet Rochlin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.

Cherokee DNA Studies

Author : Donald N. Yates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0692313702
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Cherokee DNA Studies written by Donald N. Yates and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most claims of Native American ancestry rest on the mother's ethnicity. This can be verified by a DNA test determining what type of mitochondrial DNA she passed to you. A hundred participants in DNA Consultants multi-phase Cherokee DNA Study did just that. What they had in common is they were previously rejected--by commercial firms, genealogy groups, government agencies and tribes. Their mitochondrial DNA was not classified as Native American. These are the "anomalous" Cherokee. Share the journeys of discovery and self-awareness of these passionate volunteers who defied the experts and are helping write a new chapter in the Peopling of the Americas. "The Yateses' DNA findings are revolutionary." --Stephen C. Jett, Atlantic Ocean Crossings. "Monumental."--Richard L. Thornton, Apalache Foundation.

Windows on the Past

Author : DruAnna Williams Overbay
Publisher : Melungeons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Windows on the Past written by DruAnna Williams Overbay and published by Melungeons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical textbook helps students in marriage and family programs, as well as practicing marriage and family therapists, understand and apply a variety of the most popular family therapy models, including cognitive-behavioral therapies, narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, Bowen family systems theory, family psychoeducation, and ......

A History of Appalachia

Author : Richard B. Drake
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137934
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A History of Appalachia written by Richard B. Drake and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.