Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States

Almost White: A Provocative Study of America's Mixed Blood Minorities by Brewton Berry is a study of mixed race communities in the United States.

Many of these groups, like the Melungeons of Appalachia, had mysterious origins. When Berry wrote this book in the 1960s, he had to rely on oral accounts of the origins of the community, and to a degree his visual impressions. These are the groups Berry visited and studied.

Such groups lived in isolated places to avoid racial labels. More lighter skinned people would often leave the area of their birth, so they were no longer associated with groups like the Red Bones or Brass Ankles, who were considered, as the title of this book suggests, almost white, but not white enough. Elsewhere, they could simply live as Americans of European descent.