{"id":11242,"date":"2011-01-04T03:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11242"},"modified":"2011-01-09T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T01:29:01","slug":"%e2%80%9cwhat-ain%e2%80%99t-called-melungeons-is-called-hillbillies%e2%80%9d-southern-appalachia%e2%80%99s-in-between-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11242","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat Ain\u2019t Called Melungeons is Called Hillbillies\u201d: Southern Appalachia\u2019s In-Between People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/fmls\/40.3.259\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhat Ain\u2019t Called Melungeons is Called Hillbillies\u201d: Southern Appalachia\u2019s In-Between People<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fmls.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum for Modern Language Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fmls.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/40\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 40, Issue 3<\/a> (2004)<br \/>\npage 259-278<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/fmls\/40.3.259\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/fmls\/40.3.259<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umb.edu\/academics\/cla\/dept\/american\/RachelRubin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Rubin<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Massachusetts, Boston<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The essay investigates literary evocations of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachia\" target=\"_blank\">Appalachia\u2019s<\/a> \u201cin-between\u201d people, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=118\" target=\"_blank\">Melungeons<\/a>. Melungeons are deployed by some as mystery (no one has conclusively traced their origins) and by others as solid fact (they are non-white) to shore up their own contingent sense of white privilege. The construction of Melungeon identity by outsiders has facilitated a process of \u201cre-centring\u201d whereby those poor white people so frequently scorned as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillbilly\" target=\"_blank\">hillbillies<\/a>\u201d place themselves at the heart of a racialised mountain landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/fmls.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/40\/3\/259.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat Ain\u2019t Called Melungeons is Called Hillbillies\u201d: Southern Appalachia\u2019s In-Between People Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 40, Issue 3 (2004) page 259-278 DOI: 10.1093\/fmls\/40.3.259 Rachel Rubin, Professor of American Studies University of Massachusetts, Boston The essay investigates literary evocations of Appalachia\u2019s \u201cin-between\u201d people, the Melungeons. Melungeons are deployed by some as mystery (no one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,1196,8,5113,20],"tags":[5028,100,5027],"class_list":["post-11242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-forum-for-modern-language-studies","tag-melungeon","tag-rachel-rubin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}