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Inventing America's
Inventing America's Worst Family Eugenics Islam and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael
Author: Nathaniel Deutsch
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 Unite...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520255234
ISBN-10: 0520255232
Publication Date: 1/5/2009
Pages: 282
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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