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Ancestors and Enemies - Essays on Melungeons (Paperback)
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Ancestors and Enemies - Essays on Melungeons (Paperback)
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As the twentieth century drew to an end and the millennium
approached, a new ethnic category was invented in the South. The
Melungeons were born thrashing and squawling into the American
consciousness. They were a tri-racial clan hidden away in the hills
and hollers of Lower Appalachia with a genetic predisposition to
six fingers and Mediterranean diseases and an unsavory reputation
for moonshining, counterfeiting and secret cults. DNA studies
showed they were probably descended from Portuguese colonists and
had connections with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans and
Romani (Gypsies). Were they the country's oldest indigenous people?
They soon got on the radar of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office
of Recognition, which fought the nascent identity movement tooth
and nail. This collection by two researchers involved in the
explosive controversy tells the story of the Melungeon Movement in
a coherent, chronological fashion for the first time. Fourteen
original illlustrations, ranging from Granny Dollar, the last
Cherokee Indian in Northeast Alabama, to Luis Gomez, builder of the
oldest standing Jewish residence in the United States, add interest
to the portrayal of this mysterious and exotic ethnic community.
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