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

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

Deutsch, Nathaniel

Paperback

IslamGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0520255240
ISBN13: 9780520255241
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 5 2009
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
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 United States, Nathaniel Deutsch traces how the Ishmaels, whose patriarch fought in the Revolutionary War, were discovered in the slums of Indianapolis in the 1870s and became a symbol for all that was wrong with the urban poor. The Ishmaels, actually white Christians, were later celebrated in the 1970s as the founders of the country's first African American Muslim community. This bizarre and fascinating saga reveals how class, race, religion, and science have shaped the nation's history and myths.

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