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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deutsch, Nathaniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]
Edición:Reprint 2019.
Temas:
McCulloch, Oscar C. > (Oscar Carleton), > 1843-1891
Eugenics > United States > History.
Marginality, Social > United States > History.
Eugénisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Eugenics
Marginality, Social
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. How Oscar McCulloch Discovered the Ishmaelites
  • 2. In Darkest Indianapolis
  • 3. How the Other Half Lives
  • 4. The Ishmaelites and the Menace of the Feebleminded
  • 5. The Tribal Twenties
  • 6. Lost-Found Nation
  • 7. The Ishmaels
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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