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*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}} | *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. | 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. | ||
A 2011 best-seller by Daniel J. Sharfstein deals with the not uncommon phenomenon of black families in early America making the migration toward reinventing themselves as white. This book, titled The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White (Penguin Press, 2011) discusses Melungeons as a mixed-ancestry group. | |||
Another prominent book concerned with this subject is the first non-fiction book by Lisa Alther, who has previously been known as a best-selling novelist. The book is ''Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors'' (Arcade Publishing, 2007). | |||
Among the materials listed below, note that some of the period sources, such as those by Dromgoole, are derogatory in nature. | |||
*Alther, Lisa, ''Kinfolks - Falling off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors'', New York: Arcade Publishing, 2007. | *Alther, Lisa, ''Kinfolks - Falling off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors'', New York: Arcade Publishing, 2007. | ||