Melungeons Out of the Dungeon
Melungeons: Examining an Appalachian Legend
Melungeons: The Vanishing Colony of Newman’s Ridge
Tennessee Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography
Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity
Hillbilly Women: Mountain Women Speak of Struggle and Joy in Southern Appalachia
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree
The Malungeons
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
The Melungeons: An Annotated Bibliography
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge
The Portuguese Making of America: Melungeons and Early Settlers of America
Gibson Family Genealogy: A Melungeon Line
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
From Anatolia to Appalachia: A Turkish-American Dialogue
The Forgotten Portuguese: The Melungeons and Other Groups
A Peculiar People: The Melungeons
Lest We Forget: The Melungeon Colony of Newman’s RidgeRESOURCE CENTER
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