Melungeon Voices S4 E7 – Dr. José Pimienta-Bey

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UPDATED: 8.10.2025
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American history, Melungeons, racism, Black history, history, populations, race+ethnicity, culture

date:

10.17.2023

length:

40 min

podcast:

Melungeon Voices

presenter:

Melungeon Heritage Association

producer:

Lis Malone (Lis Malone LLC)

host:

Heather Andolina (MHA President)

guest:

Dr. Jose Pimienta-Bey

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Dr. José Pimienta-Bey is a tenured Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and General Studies at Berea College in Kentucky for the past fifteen years. Pimienta-Bey's primary research interests include Moorish History, “Black”/African Psychology, Comparative Religious Studies, and African American Social and Political Thought.

He is the author of numerous publications, including Othello’s Children in the “New World”: Moorish History and Identity in the African American Experience (2002) and “Laboring Within the Mind Fields of Global White Supremacy” which appears in The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (2019) edited by Raymond A. Winbush and Denise L. Wright.

In this season's final episode, Heather and Dr. Pimienta-Bey explore the legal and cultural relevance of Melungeons and Moor identities within U. S. History.