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melungeon

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melungeon [məˈlʌndʒən]
n
(Social Science / Peoples) any of a dark-skinned group of people of the Appalachians in E Tennessee, of mixed Indian, White, and Black ancestry
[of unknown origin]


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9780881461503 Through the back door; Melungeon literacies and twenty-first-century technologies.
00 1-478-301-2880 Children Of Perdition: Melungeons And The Struggle Of Mixed America by award winning investigative journalist Tim Hashaw is the history of mixed-race communities in America during the 300 years in which marriage between whites and nonwhites was outlawed.
9780881460896 The electronic front porch; an oral history of the arrival of modern media in rural Appalachia and the Melungeon community.
 
 
 
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