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Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South Melissa Schrift
Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
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.
232 pages, 2 appendixes
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 1, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780803271548 |
| Publishers | University of Nebraska Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 25 mm · 408 g |