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Subject(s)

• Crypto-Jews—United States [Browse]
• Sephardim—United States [Browse]
• Jews—United States—Genealogy [Browse]
• Melungeons [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

• Yates, Donald N. (Donald Neal), 1950- [Browse]

Summary note

"Twenty years ago a new ethnic category was invented. The Melungeons were born thrashing and sprawling their way into the American consciousness-- a tri-racial clan hidden away in the hills and hollers of lower Appalachia with a genetic predisposition to six fingers and Mediterranean diseases and unsavory associations with cults, moonshining and counterfeiting. DNA studies showed they were descended from Portuguese settlers and had connections with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Indians and gypsies. This collection by two researchers involved in these astonishing discoveries tells the story of the Melungeons in a coherent, chronological fashion for the first time." -- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• You might be Melungeon if
• Strange genes in Appalachia
• Don Quixote and Senor Eggplant
• Shalom, y'all
• You will never find out the truth
• Crazy quilt ancestry
• Who'da thunk it
• Influence of Sephardic Jews and Moors on southeastern Indians
• Return to Judaism
• Indians and Crypto-Jews
• Cyberfeud on the ridge
• Where did all the money go
• Dying campfires.

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ISBN

• 9780615906898
• 0615906893

OCLC

880676891

RCP

H - S

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