Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West Carr Julie
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West Carr Julie Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root…
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West Carr Julie
Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive.Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics, helping readers to understand populism's tendency toward racism and exclusion.Carr follows the story of her great-grandfather Omer Madison Kem, three-term Populist representative from Nebraska, avid spiritualist, and committed eugenicist, to explore persistent themes in U.S. Julie Carr traces her own family's history through archival documents to draw connections between U.S.
While recent books have taken seriously the experiences of poor whites in rural America, they haven't traced the story to its origins. history: property, personhood, exclusion, and belonging. Carr connects Kem's journey with
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