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Becoming Melungeon - Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South (Hardcover, 0 Ed)
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Becoming Melungeon - Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South (Hardcover, 0 Ed)
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Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population
of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the
outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the
farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown
origins of these Melungeons are part of what drove this legend and
generated myriad exotic origin theories. Though nobody
self-identified as Melungeon before the 1960s, by the 1990s
"Melungeonness" had become a full-fledged cultural phenomenon,
resulting in a zealous online community and annual meetings where
self-identified Melungeons gathered to discuss shared genealogy and
history. Although today Melungeons are commonly identified as the
descendants of underclass whites, freed African Americans, and
Native Americans, this ethnic identity is still largely a social
construction based on local tradition, myth, and media. In Becoming
Melungeon, Melissa Schrift 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. This illuminating and insightful work
examines the shifting social constructions of race, ethnicity, and
identity both in the local context of the Melungeons and more
broadly in an attempt to understand the formation of ethnic groups
and identity in the modern world.
General
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2013 |
First published: |
May 2013 |
Authors: |
Melissa Schrift
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
232 |
Edition: |
0 Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-7154-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Ethnic studies >
General
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LSN: |
0-8032-7154-9 |
Barcode: |
9780803271548 |
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