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"Get this Article! In Southern Cultures by John Shelton Reed

Just Released! a new article about Melungeons in the fabulous (scholarly but readable) journal named Southern Cultures published by the Univ. of North Carolina Press. The author is John Shelton Reed, well-known sociologist (of the modern South), co-editor of Southern Cultures, a Kingsport, TN, native, and the older brother of author Lisa Alther. The full citation is:

John Shelton Reed, 'Mixing in the Mountains,' in Southern Cultures, Vol 3, Number 4, Winter 1997-1998, pp. 25-36.

The article's subtitle (from the index) reads: 'The Melungeons prove to be more than just another of the South's 'little races' for the author.' The article includes a photo of Reed, its caption reads: 'John Shelton Reed, sociologist and possible Melungeon.'

To summarize, Reed gives a nutshell review of the known and 'legendary' facts about the Melungeons-- incuding Dromgoole, Price, Bible, DeMarce, and Brent Kennedy -- and describes how, growing up in Kingsport, he had heard a lot about Melungeons (and his father/doctor had told him about the six finger-thing) but, despite a high-school-era jaunt to Sneedville for the purpose of seeing some in their natural habitat, he didn't believe that he actually knew any or had ever seen any. "