Reposted from a post named Melungeon @ ezrasf.com.

Mom dropped me a note last night. She ran across the word melungeon while doing some genealogy research. It describes someone who is of European, African, and Native American descent. It was popular in the Appalachian Mountains and similar in use to Mulatto in being a negative term ( Read more... )

NPR : Mother and Son Offer Transracial Adoption Insights:Morning Edition, July 23, 2007 · When Judy Stigger and her husband decided to adopt, they chose children who very obviously didn't look like them ( Read more... )