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Inventing America's Worst Family : Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael /

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 rebelli...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deutsch, Nathaniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]
Edición:Reprint 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Illustrations --  |t Foreword --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction --  |t 1. How Oscar McCulloch Discovered the Ishmaelites --  |t 2. In Darkest Indianapolis --  |t 3. How the Other Half Lives --  |t 4. The Ishmaelites and the Menace of the Feebleminded --  |t 5. The Tribal Twenties --  |t 6. Lost-Found Nation --  |t 7. The Ishmaels --  |t Afterword --  |t Notes --  |t Selected Bibliography --  |t Index 
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