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 ==== Bibliography  ====
 Probably the best-known book concerned with this subject is N. Brent Kennedy, ''The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America''&nbsp;(Mercer University Press, 1997).
 Many have taken issue with Kennedy's conclusions, probably most notably Virginia Easley DeMarce:<br>
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 *DeMarce, Virginia Easley. "Review Essay: The Melungeons," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'', Vol. 84, No. 2 (June 1996):134-139. {{FHL|39597|item|disp=FHL Book 973 B2ng}}<br>
 *DeMarce, Virginia Easley. "Looking at Legends - Lumbee and Melungeon: Applied Genealogy and the Origins of Tri-racial Isolate Settlements," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'', Vol. 81, No. 1 (March 1993):24-45. {{FHL|39597|item|disp=FHL Book 973 B2ng}}
+Others have, however, concluded that, based on recent reevaluation of records pertaining to Melungeon families, the phenomenon is much as Kennedy described. Kennedy's book is a part of a series of books about Melungeons published by Mercer University Press. Those books, as well as other printed materials on the subject, are listed below:
+*Alther, Lisa, Kinfolks - Falling off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors, New York: Arcade Publishing, 2007.
+*Ball, Bonnie Sage, The Melungeons: Their Origin and Kin, Virginia Book Company, 1977.
+*Ball, Bonnie, The Melungeons, 1992.
+*Bible, Jean Patterson, Melungeons Yesterdayand Today, 1975.
+*Bird, Stephanie Rose, Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2009.
+*Brake, Katherine Vande, How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001.
+*Brake, Katherine Vande, Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First-Century Technologies, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2009.
+*Callahan, Jim, Lest We Forget: The Melungeon Colony of Newman's Ridge, 2000.
+*Colby, Lester B., "The Lost State of Franklin" ("Little Journeys in Americana" column), Rock Valley Bee, Rock Valley, Iowa, 26 April 1929, p. 9.
+*"Distinct Race of People Inhabits the Mountains of East Tennessee," The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee, 3 August 1923, p. 3.
+*Dromgoole, Will Allen, The Malungeon Tree and its Four Branches, 1891.
+*Dromgoole, Will Allen, "The Malungeons," The Arena, Vol. 3, 1891, pp. 470-479.
+*Elder, Pat Spurlock, Melungeons: Examining an Appalachian Legend, Continuity Press, 1999.
+*"Farm for Hubby: Indian Girls Desire to Marry Pale Faces - Liberal Offers Made," Moberly Evening Democrat, Moberly, Missouri, 22 November 1900, p. 1.
+*Goins, Jack Harold, Melungeons and Other Pioneer Families, 2000.
+*Hashaw, Tim, Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2006, 2007.
+*Hicks, Theresa M., and Wes Taukchiray, South Carolina Indians, Indian Traders, and Other Ethnic Connections: Beginning in 1670, The Reprint Company, 1998.
+*Hirschman, Elizabeth, Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005.
+*"In Tennessee's Hills: The Mysterious Tribe Known as Malungeons," The Morning Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, 14 October 1890, p. 3.
+*Kennedy, N. Brent, The Melungeons - The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America, rev. ed., Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1997.
+*Kessler, John S., and Donald B. Ball, North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001.
+*Kiss, Mary, "Over the Coffee Cup," Kingsport News, Kingsport, Tennessee, 29 June 1954, p. 1.
+*"Malungeons," American Notes and Queries, Vol. 6, 4 April 1891, pp. 273-274.
+*Mira, Manuel, The Forgotten Portuguese, Portuguese-American Historical Research Foundation, 1998.
+*Mira, Manual, The Portuguese Making of America, Portuguese-American Historical Research Foundation, 2001.
+*"Odd Mountain Race: Tennessee People Who Claim Portuguese Descent," Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 22 April 1902, p. 5.
+*"Odd Race of People: The Malungeons Live in Eastern Tennessee," Delphos Daily Herald, Delphos, Ohio, 1 July 1902, p. 3.
+*"Outdoor Drama Rejuvenates Town of Sneedville, Tenn.," Daily Middlesboro News, Middlesboro, Kentucky, 9 June 1973, pp. 1, 8.
+*Overbay, DruAnna Williams, Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy, Hancock County, Tennessee, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005.
+*"Paleface Husbands Wanted: Inducements Temporarily Offered by the Malungeons [sic] Indians," The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, 6 December 1900, p. 10.
+*Podber, Jacob J., The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2007.
+*"'Post' Features East Tennesseans," The Kingsport News, Kingsport, Tennessee, 17 October 1947, p. 7.
+*"Rev. Mr. Kesterson: A Tennessee Clergyman with a Record," The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, 9 November 1898, p. 6; The Oxford Mirror, 3 November 1898, p. 9.
+*Scolnick, Joseph M., Jr., and N. Brent Kennedy, eds., From Anatolia to Appalachia: A Turkish-American Dialogue, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2003.
+*Smith, Barbara Ellen, ed., Women, Race, and Class in the South, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1999.
+*"A Strange People of Tennessee: The Malungeons and their Curious Customs," The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, 20 September 1897, p. 8.
+*Thacker, Larry D., Jr., Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia, 2007.
+*Walsh, William Shepard, "Franklin, State of," A Handy Book of Curious Information, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913, pp. 366-367.
+*Weeks, Stephen B., "The Lost Colony of Roanoke: Its Fate and Survival," Papers of the American Historical Association, Vol. 5, 1891.
+*Winkler, Wayne, Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2004, 2005.
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