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

Author/creator Deutsch, Nathaniel
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
McCulloch, Oscar C. (Oscar Carleton), 1843-1891.
Eugenics--United States. --History.
Marginality, Social--United States. --History.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.
LCCN 2008017181
ISBN9780520255234 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520255232 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520255241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0520255240 (pbk. : alk. paper)