Melissa Schrift: 2 books
Becoming Melungeon
Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown origins of these Melungeons are part of what...
Southern Heritage on Display
Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South
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"From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in Mississippi and the Scottish Highland...