{"id":118,"date":"2009-06-20T05:11:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T05:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2013-01-31T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:46:03","slug":"melungeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Melungeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melungeon\" target=\"_blank\">Melungeon<\/a> (pronounced \/m\u0259\u02c8l\u028cnd\u0292\u0259n\/) is a term traditionally applied to one of a number of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7933\" target=\"_blank\">tri-racial isolate<\/a>&#8221; groups of the Southeastern United States, mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia: east Tennessee, southwest Virginia, and east Kentucky. Tri-racial describes populations thought to be of mixed (1) European, (2) sub-Saharan African, and (3) Native American ancestry.\u00a0 Although there is no consensus on how many such groups exist, estimates range as high as 200.\u00a0 Some self-identifying Melungeons dislike the term tri-racial isolate, believing that it has pejorative connotations. Until the late 20th century, some considered the term Melungeon to be pejorative&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melungeon\" target=\"_blank_\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melungeon (pronounced \/m\u0259\u02c8l\u028cnd\u0292\u0259n\/) is a term traditionally applied to one of a number of &#8220;tri-racial isolate&#8221; groups of the Southeastern United States, mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia: east Tennessee, southwest Virginia, and east Kentucky. Tri-racial describes populations thought to be of mixed (1) European, (2) sub-Saharan African, and (3) Native American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","category-triracial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","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=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}