Inventing America's "worst" family
Subtitle: eugenics, Islam, and the fall and rise of the tribe of Ishmael
By: Nathaniel Deutsch.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780520255234; 9780520255241
Subjects: McCulloch, Oscar C. -- 1843-1891; Eugenics -- United States -- History; Marginality, Social -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: How Oscar McCulloch discovered the Ishmaelites; title: In darkest Indianapolis; title: How the other half lives; title: The Ishmaelites and the menace of the feebleminded; title: The tribal twenties : Ishmaelites, immigrants, and Asiatic Black men; title: Lost-found nation : how the tribe of Ishmael became "Muslim"; title: The Ishmaels : an American story.