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The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race
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9780932807748
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114
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This thorough ethnological study is both scholarly and highly readable. In it the author objectively traces the roots of one of America's more obscure peoples, the Melungeons.
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citation (CMOS):
Bonnie Ball. The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race. Revised. Johnson City, TN: The Overmountain Press, 1992.
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- Melungeon Voices S5 E4 – Melungeon & Maroon Communities and the Underground Railroad
- The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community
- The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness
- An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States
- Survey of Demography, Anthropometry, and Genetics in the Melungeons of Tennessee: An Isolate of Hybrid Origin in Process of Dissolution
- Melungeon Voices S4 E6 – Scott Withrow