Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword by Sudhir Venkatesh Acknowledgments Introduction 1. How Oscar McCulloch Discovered the Ishmaelites 2. In Darkest Indianapolis 3. How the Other Half Lives 4. The Ishmaelites and the Menace of the Feebleminded 5. The Tribal Twenties: Ishmaelites, Immigrants, and Asiatic Black Men 6. Lost-Found Nation: How the Tribe of Ishmael Became "Muslim" 7. The Ishmaels: An American Story Afterword Notes Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of Literature and History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is author of The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World (UC Press), among other books.

Reviews

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