Melungeon Portraits

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631638
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Melungeon Portraits by : Tamara L. Stachowicz

Download or read book Melungeon Portraits written by Tamara L. Stachowicz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Melungeon Portraits

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669791
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Melungeon Portraits by : Tamara L. Stachowicz

Download or read book Melungeon Portraits written by Tamara L. Stachowicz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

How They Shine

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Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547216
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (472 download)

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Book Synopsis How They Shine by : Katherine Vande Brake

Download or read book How They Shine written by Katherine Vande Brake and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vande Brake surveys Appalachian fiction and finds a suprising number of Melungeon characters lurking in the pages of many Southern writers.

The Melungeons

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Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807748
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Melungeons by : Bonnie Sage Ball

Download or read book The Melungeons written by Bonnie Sage Ball and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 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.

Walking Toward the Sunset

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

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Book Synopsis Walking Toward the Sunset by : Wayne Winkler

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.

North from the Mountains

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Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547001
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis North from the Mountains by : John S. Kessler

Download or read book North from the Mountains written by John S. Kessler and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kessler and Ball have written the definitive book on the Carmel Melungeon settlement in Highland, Ohio. Available in both hardback and paperback.

The Melungeons

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Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 9780865545168
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (451 download)

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Book Synopsis The Melungeons by : N. Brent Kennedy

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.

Lest We Forget

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Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570721670
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis Lest We Forget by : Jim Callahan

Download or read book Lest We Forget written by Jim Callahan and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Melungeons

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

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Book Synopsis Melungeons by : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman

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.

From Anatolia to Appalachia

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Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547766
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 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 142 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.

Kinfolks

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

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Book Synopsis Kinfolks by : Lisa Alther

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.

Melungeons

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Melungeons by : Pat Spurlock Elder

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.

Children of Perdition

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Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881460742
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Children of Perdition by : Tim Hashaw

Download or read book Children of Perdition written by Tim Hashaw and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name "children of perdition" to mixed Americans during the 300 years that marriage between whites and nonwhites was outlawed. Mixed communities ranked socially below communities of freed slaves although they had lighter skin. To escape persecution caused by the stigma of having African blood, these groups invented fantastic stories of their origins, known generally as "lost colony" legends. From the founding of America, through the American Revolution, the Civil War and World War II, the author documents the histories of several related mixed communities that began in Virginia in 1619 and still exist today, and shows how they responded to racism over four centuries. Conflicts led to imprisonment, whippings, slavery, lynching, gun battles, forced sterilization, and exile--but they survived. America's view of mixing became increasingly intolerant and led to a twentieth-century scheme to forcibly exile U.S. citizens, with as little as ?one drop? of black blood, to Africa even though their ancestors arrived before the Mayflower. Evidence documents the collaboration between American race purists and leading Nazi Germans who perpetrated the Holocaust. The author examines theories of ethnic purity and ethnic superiority, and reveals how mixed people responded to "pure race" myths with origin myths of their own as Nazi sympa-thizers in state and federal government segregated mixed Americans, citing the myth of Aryan supremacy. Finally, Children of Perdition explains why many Americans view mixing as unnatural and shows how mixed people continue to confront the Jim Crow "one drop" standard today. Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name "children of perdition" to mixed Americans during the 300 years that marriage between whites and nonwhites was outlawed. Mixed communities ranked socially below communities of freed slaves although they had lighter skin. To escape persecution caused by the stigma of having African blood, these groups invented fantastic stories of their origins, known generally as "lost colony" legends. From the founding of America, through the American Revolution, the Civil War and World War II, the author documents the histories of several related mixed communities that began in Virginia in 1619 and still exist today, and shows how they responded to racism over four centuries. Conflicts led to imprisonment, whippings, slavery, lynching, gun battles, forced sterilization, and exile--but they survived. America's view of mixing became increasingly intolerant and led to a twentieth-century scheme to forcibly exile U.S. citizens, with as little as ?one drop? of black blood, to Africa even though their ancestors arrived before the Mayflower. Evidence documents the collaboration between American race purists and leading Nazi Germans who perpetrated the Holocaust. The author examines theories of ethnic purity and ethnic superiority, and reveals how mixed people responded to "pure race" myths with origin myths of their own as Nazi sympa-thizers in state and federal government segregated mixed Americans, citing the myth of Aryan supremacy. Finally, Children of Perdition explains why many Americans view mixing as unnatural and shows how mixed people continue to confront the Jim Crow "one drop" standard today.

The Story Keeper

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Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1496443993
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story Keeper by : Lisa Wingate

Download or read book The Story Keeper written by Lisa Wingate and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does." When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever. Happy with her life in the city, and at the top of her career with a new job at Vida House Publishing, Jen has left her Appalachian past and twisted family ties far behind. But the search for the rest of the manuscript, and Jen's suspicions about the identity of its unnamed author, will draw her into a mystery that leads back to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains . . . and quite possibly through the doors she thought she had closed forever.

Becoming Melungeon

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

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Book Synopsis Becoming Melungeon by : Melissa Schrift

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.

Lost Cove, North Carolina

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686084
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Lost Cove, North Carolina by : Christy A. Smith

Download or read book Lost Cove, North Carolina written by Christy A. Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located just seconds from the winding Tennessee border, the remote mountain settlement of Lost Cove, North Carolina was once described as where the "moonshiner frolics unmolested." Today, Lost Cove is a ghost town accessible mainly to hikers hoping to catch a glimpse of the desolate settlement. In this first historically comprehensive book on Lost Cove, the author paints a portrait of an isolated yet thriving settlement that survived for almost one hundred years. From its founding before the Civil War to the town's ultimate decline, Lost Cove's history is an in-depth account of family life and kinship in isolation. The author explores historically relevant interviews and genealogical findings from railroad documents, old newspaper articles, church records and deeds. Also included are oral histories that provide authentic, conversational accounts from families in the cove.

From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476682267
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis by : Wendy Welch

Download or read book From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis written by Wendy Welch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from doctors, nurses, and therapists dealing on a daily basis with the opioid crisis in Appalachia should be heartbreaking. Yet those told here also inspire with practical advice on how to assist those in addiction, from a grass-roots to a policy level. Readers looking for ways to combat the crisis will find suggestions alongside laughter, tears, and sometimes rage. Each author brings the passion of their profession and the personal losses they have experienced from addiction, and posits solutions and harm reduction with positivity, grace, and even humor. Authors representing seven states from northern, Coalfields, and southern Appalachia relate personal encounters with patients or providers who changed them forever. This is a history document, showing how we got here; an evidenced indictment of current policies failing those who need them most; an affirmation that Appalachia solves its own problems; and a collection of suggestions for best practice moving forward.