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The American Isolates: The Racially‐Mixed People of the Ramapos: Undoing the Jackson White Legends *
Author(s) -
COLLINS DANIEL
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1972.74.5.02a00190
Subject(s) - pejorative , undoing , white (mutation) , extant taxon , isolation (microbiology) , history , genealogy , anthropology , ethnology , sociology , psychology , political science , law , psychoanalysis , biochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , evolutionary biology , biology , gene , chemistry
A review of the literature fails to validate the Jackson White legends which traditionally have accounted for the presence of a racially mixed collectivity in the Ramapo Mountain area. Extant oral traditions supporting the least documented and most pejorative aspects of the legends serve to maintain isolation and threaten the continuation of the Ramapo Mountain community of racially mixed people.