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Virginia | Southwest Virginia | Lee County, VA | Wise County, VA | North Carolina | Tennessee | East Tennessee | Hancock County, TN | Blackwater Creek (Hancock Co, TN) | Newman’s Ridge (Hancock Co, TN) | Vardy Valley (Hancock Co, TN) | Hawkins County, TN | Kentucky | Eastern Kentucky | Ohio | Carmel (Highland Co, OH)
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An Introduction to the Guineas: West Virginia’s Melungeons
Melungeon Portraits: Lived Experience and Identity
Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee
The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness
Survey of Demography, Anthropometry, and Genetics in the Melungeons of Tennessee: An Isolate of Hybrid Origin in Process of Dissolution
The Graysville Melungeons: A Tri-Racial People in Lower East Tennessee
Melungeon Voices S5 E7 – Melungeon and Redbone Ancestral Connections
Black in Appalachia S1 E10 – Melungeons
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al.
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies
Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity
On Family and Fences: Tracing Melungeon Roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Tennessee
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population
Melungeon Voices S1 E2 – Beverly ScarlettMelungeon Voices S1 E3 – Bill GipsonMelungeon Voices S1 E5 – Robert WellsMelungeon Voices S2 E2 – Jake RichardsMelungeon Voices S2 E5 – Onur KayaMelungeon Voices S2 E6 – Lauren MagnussenMelungeon Voices S2 E7 – Dr. Arwin SmallwoodMelungeon Voices S3 E2 – Mike Richards + Tim WebbMelungeon Voices S3 E3 – Katya FarisMelungeon Voices S3 E4 – Ron CarsonMelungeon Voices S3 E5 – Janeen StephensMelungeon Voices S3 E6 – Gabriel GreavesMelungeon Voices S4 E1 – Kiran Singh SirahMelungeon Voices S4 E2 – Dr. Kathy LydayMelungeon Voices S4 E4 – Aaron CollinsMelungeon Voices S4 E5 – Melinda Trueblood StimpsonMelungeon Voices S4 E6 – Scott WithrowMelungeon Voices S4 E7 – Dr. Jose Pimienta-BeyMelungeon Voices S5 E1 – Southern & Appalachian Folk MedicineMelungeon Voices S5 E2 – “Generations: An Indigenous Exhibit”Melungeon Voices S5 E3 – Discovering Melungeon & Indigenous AncestryMelungeon Voices S5 E4 – Melungeon & Maroon Communities and the Underground RailroadMelungeon Voices S5 E5 – Overcoming Generational Trauma and Melungeon Resilience