History and Legends of the Mysterious “Jackson Whites” - Weird NJ
WEBMar 26, 2023 · Most commonly associated with the Ramapo Mountain peoples of Mahwah, Ringwood, and the southern New York state towns of Hillburn an Suffern, the moniker “Jackson Whites” is now, and has almost certainly always been used as a derogatory name.
Ramapough Mountain Indians - Wikipedia
WEBThe Ramapo people were often referred to historically as the Jackson Whites, a term which they regard as being derogatory, [15] and which, according to legend, was either from the name of the Jackson White heirloom potato [16] or a distortion of Jacks and Whites, referring to their multiracial ancestry. [17]
Have you heard of New Jersey’s mysterious legendary people?
WEBApr 15, 2024 · Younger people under 40 have probably never heard of the Jackson Whites. It was considered a derogatory term by the group and in 1980 the state of New Jersey officially recognized them as the...
Strangers on the Mountain - The New Yorker
WEBFeb 21, 2010 · “Apparently it’s the mountain people up there.” “Mountain people” is a euphemism for what locals used to call “Jackson Whites”—a racial slur that the referents equate with the word ...
Time to tell the truth about the Ramapough people | Di Ionno
WEBApr 19, 2015 · What person with a brain is going think a bunch of prostitutes are going to walk 30 miles from the city and come to a sparsely populated mountain woods where people have no money?
WEBA 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.
Documentary Explores Struggle of New Jersey’s Ramapough Tribe
WEBAug 8, 2015 · Cameras follow a young Ramapough, Devynn Mann, through the halls of West Milford High School, where she talks with a teacher about “Jackson Whites,” a local term and racial slur referring to ...
A Legend Takes Hold · Community · Our Land, Our Stories
WEBThey were called the Ramapo Mountain people, or Mountaineers, or Jackson Whites - whatever outsiders decided was the right term - and referred to as “mongrels” belonging to a “degenerate race.”
Origin Of The Jackson Whites : John C. Storms - Archive.org
WEBAug 18, 2019 · The single document that was probably most responsible for solidifying the Jackson Whites’ legend in New Jersey folklore was a self published 1936 book entitled The Origins of the Jackson Whites of the Ramapo Mountains by John C. Storms.
The American Isolates: The Racially‐Mixed People of the Ramapos ...
WEBA 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.
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