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Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee
Resource ID: 10338
Type: journal article, article
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- Melungeons, Populations, Identity, Folklore, Culture
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publication:
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2307/1498216
date:
January 1977
pages:
pp. 85-107
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places:
Sneedville (Hancock Co, TN) | Virginia | West Virginia | North Carolina | Tennessee | Kentucky | Southwest Virginia | South Carolina | Louisiana | Newman’s Ridge (Hancock Co, TN) | Panther Creek (Hancock Co, TN) | Blackwater Creek (Hancock Co, TN) | Blackwater Swamp | Big Sycamore Creek | Powell Mountain | Snake Hollow (Hancock Co, TN) | Big Stone Gap (Wise Co, VA) | Hancock County, TN
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