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Inventing America's "worst" family : eugenics, Islam, and the fall and rise of the tribe of Ishmael

Title
Inventing America's "worst" family : eugenics, Islam, and the fall and rise of the tribe of Ishmael / Nathaniel Deutsch.
Author
Deutsch, Nathaniel.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Description
xiv, 253 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Purchased with the Jeremiah Kaplan Endowment for the Social Sciences.
Subject
  • McCulloch, Oscar C. 1843-1891
  • Eugenics > United States > History
  • Marginality, Social > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.
Contents
How Oscar McCulloch discovered the Ishmaelites -- In darkest Indianapolis -- How the other half lives -- The Ishmaelites and the menace of the feebleminded -- The tribal twenties : Ishmaelites, immigrants, and Asiatic black men -- Lost-found nation : how the tribe of Ishmael became "Muslim" -- The Ishmaels : an American story.
Call Number
JFE 09-849
ISBN
  • 9780520255234 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520255232 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520255241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520255240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008017181
OCLC
225871898
Author
Deutsch, Nathaniel.
Title
Inventing America's "worst" family : eugenics, Islam, and the fall and rise of the tribe of Ishmael / Nathaniel Deutsch.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 09-849
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