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Examines the shifting social constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity in the local context of the Melungeons

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Schrift has produced an important piece of scholarship about a new American ethnic identity."-Susan Keefe, Appalachian Journal "Becoming Melungeon will be vital to anyone interested in Melungeons."-Philip E. Coyle, Folklore