{"id":9441,"date":"2010-10-10T22:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2011-01-09T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T01:29:01","slug":"the-melungeon-identity-movement-and-the-construction-of-appalachian-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9441","title":{"rendered":"The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/jlin.2001.11.1.131\" target=\"_blank\">The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1548-1395\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Linguistic Anthropology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jola.2001.11.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 11, Issue 1<\/a> (June 2001)<br \/>\npages 131-146<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/jlin.2001.11.1.131\" target=\"_blank\">10.1525\/jlin.2001.11.1.131<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rc.vt.edu\/facstaff\/Puckett.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anita Puckett<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies<br \/>\n<em>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How this binary system is discursively constituted depends upon the ways in which elements of a repertoire interconnect to distribute or consolidate power and privilege across discursive contexts. Circulation of the revitalized <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lexeme\" target=\"_blank\">lexeme<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=118\" target=\"_blank\">Melungeon<\/a> as a valued \u201cobject\u201d within <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachia\" target=\"_blank\">Appalachian<\/a> discourse reveals linguistic processes by which white racial privilege is constructed and expanded, mixed-race classification excluded, and nonwhite disenfranchisement reproduced.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1525\/jlin.2001.11.1.131\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Volume 11, Issue 1 (June 2001) pages 131-146 DOI: 10.1525\/jlin.2001.11.1.131 Anita Puckett, Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University How this binary system is discursively constituted depends upon the ways in which elements of a repertoire interconnect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,125,8,5113,20],"tags":[4085,4086,211],"class_list":["post-9441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-anita-puckett","tag-journal-of-linguistic-anthropology","tag-melungeons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441","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=9441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}