Excellent synopsis of research as it currently stands

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	• Walking Toward The Sunset: The Melungeons Of Appalachia (Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, & ... Wayne Winkler Mercer University Press, 2005 - 313 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A good read

this is the true story behind the legends. I recommend it.

The Best Overview of Melungeons

Of all the books about Melungeons, this is the one you want to own. In an unbiased manner, Winkler gives a complete overview of the history and legends of the Melungeons, reviews all the theories, and is as objective a writer as you would want to find. He has no ax to grind or theory to promote; he wants the reader to understand all the theories and make their own judgments. All he asks is that the readers keep an open mind about issues of "race" and mixed race in America.

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more than I needed to know

For my unacademic interest in this obscure group of Americans, the detail here was a bit smothering. But the author does raise some good points in his comments on racial attitudes. But he seems to contend that there is no such thing as race and then spends much of the book talking about race. Not a bad read for a long plane ride.

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Walking Toward the Sunset

Good book about a very interesting group of people.

Excellent synopsis of research as it currently stands

Wayne Winkler has done an outstanding job researching and synthesizing his findings into an informative, readable book.

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