Inventing America's Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael
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This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapegoated into prominence as America's "worst" family by the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, then "reinvented" in the 1970s as part of a vanguard of social rebellion. In what becomes a profoundly unsettling counter-history of the United States, Nathaniel Deutsch traces how the Ishmaels, whose patriarch fought in the Revolutionary War, were...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520255240
ISBN13:9780520255241
Release Date:January 2009
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:282 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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