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.
#300471 in Books 2006-11-29Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.00 x 1.58 x 8.50l; 4.20 #File Name: 0520246055596 pages
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