Becoming Melungeon
Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
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412 g
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223x146x27 mm
Beschreibung:
Melissa Schrift is an associate professor of anthropology at East Tennessee State University. She is the author of Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult.
Examines the ways in which the Melungeon ethnic identity has been socially constructed over time by various regional and national media, plays, and other forms of popular culture. Schrift explores how the social construction of this legend evolved into a fervent movement of a self-identified ethnicity in the 1990s.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Race, Identity, and the Melungeon Legend Chapter 1: Inventing the Melungeons Chapter 2: Melungeons and Media Representation Chapter 3: Playing the First Melungeons Chapter 4: Becoming Melungeon Chapter 5: The Mediterranean Mystique Chapter 6: The Melungeon Core Closing Thoughts Appendix 1: Melungeon Questionnaire Appendix 2: Media Articles Notes Works Cited Index