Melissa Schrift

Becoming Melungeon

Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780803271548
• ISBN-10: 0803271549
• Artikelnr.: 36757976

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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