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Title: The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People : An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America by N. Brent Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan Kennedy ISBN: 0-86554-516-2 Publisher: Mercer University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A New American Ethnic Group
Comment: This is a fascinating look at a relatively unknown ethnic group that first hit the American shores in the 1500s, settling eventually in Appalachia, and taking on new ethnic strands through the centuries. Influences in the Melungeon ethnic make-up include possible Moorish, Iberian, Turkish, Anglo-Irish, American Indian, and others, resulting in an ethnic group that is just now becoming fully conscious of its roots. In addition to the human interest of the book, I found it fascinating from historical, cultural, and spiritual perspectives- I was reminded that we are all pretty mixed up from an ethnic perspective and yet we all come from the same Source. Mr. Kennedy, who is Melungeon, has done his own people a great service with this book, but also a great service for all Americans, who can learn a little more about their history, including the not-so-pleasant side. Highly recommended for anyone interested in U.S. history, the history of ethnic groups in America, the culture of Appalachia, or the history of a very interesting people, the Melungeons.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating!
Comment: I grew up with Melungeon classmates in southeastern OH and picked this up out of curiosity. What a fascinating story! The subtitle is perhaps a little misleading. I almost avoided the book because it sounded like a diatribe about ethnic massacres; whereas it is really a geneaological journey that weaves in the Melungeon experience in America. At first it comes off as an esoteric delving into the author's geneaology; but as the story unfolds, the reader becomes sucked into the fascinating story of Kennedy's family and their colorful Melungeon roots.
A downside is that he is quick to take scientists to task for their hesitancy about alternative views on Melungeon origins. He seems not to be aware that researchers, in ANY scientific field, need to exercise caution and cannot advocate new hypotheses without data. Meanwhile, he exercises no such caution about his ideas -- speculation on everything from lost colonies, to some really far-fetched word origins -- runs rampant. If not for this I'd give it 5 stars. That being said, this is a fun and fascinating book, and the author's enthusiasm really comes through; a great introduction to a fascinating people.
Rating: 3
Summary: Americans of Still Another Color
Comment: The author's attempt to get to the bottom of a genetic disease/condition leads him to dig into his genealogy and ethnic and racial origins, trying to find out why he has a disease that primarily afflicts people of Middle Eastern descent, when he has roots that go back hundreds of years in the southern hill country. He discovers and uncovers a group of people that really don't fit any of our traditional racial groupings, people that are bi-racial and tri-racial.
As we learn more about human DNA, the author's many theories about where the Melungeon blood comes from will be strenghened or cast aside by the genetic evidence.
But it looks like the immigration from the Old World to North America was not just the pale-faced English, but people from all over Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East who brought their genes here, in bigger quantities and earlier than originally thought.
Kennedy often ends up on a fishing expedition, and supposition too often replaces fact. But his theories are interesting, and entertaining. For example, he tells us the Turkish word for "hell" sounds an awful lot like "Alabama."
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Title: The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race by Bonnie Sage Ball, Bonnie Ball, Randy Hodge ISBN: 0932807747 Publisher: Overmountain Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman's Ridge by Mattie Ruth Johnson ISBN: 1570720630 Publisher: Overmountain Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: North from the Mountains a Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement,Highland County, Ohio: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement,) by John S. Kessler, Donald B. Ball, N. Brent Kennedy ISBN: 0865547033 Publisher: Mercer University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America by Elizabeth Hirschman ISBN: 0865549206 Publisher: Mercer University Press Pub. Date: December, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Lest We Forget: The Melungeon Colony of Newman's Ridge by Jim Callahan ISBN: 157072167X Publisher: Overmountain Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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