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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2009]
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| Edition: | Reprint 2019. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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