Melungeon Voices S1 E2 – Beverly Scarlett
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- UPDATED: 8.10.2025
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- Melungeons
- mystery, ancestry, family photo
date:
7.3.2020
length:
25 min
podcast:
presenter:
producer:
Lis Malone (Lis Malone LLC)
host:
Heather Andolina (MHA President)
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description:
District Court Judge and Author, Beverly Scarlett, shares her personal journey in discovering her Melungeon ancestry which began with a mysterious family photo and later developed into her deep genealogical family research which has inspired her new book due out this summer.
Other Resources
- Washed in the Blood
- Toward a Genetic Profile of Melungeons in Southern Appalachia
- The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness
- Erasures of the Past: Culture, Power, and Heterogeneity in Appalachia
- Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
- Melungeon Voices S2 E7 – Dr. Arwin Smallwood