Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain...
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Author: Julie Carr
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Language: English
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West by Carr, Julie

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

€64,11

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

€64,11
Author: Julie Carr
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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. Julie Carr traces her own family's history through archival documents to draw connections between U.S. 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. history: property, personhood, exclusion, and belonging. While recent books have taken seriously the experiences of poor whites in rural America, they haven't traced the story to its origins. Carr connects Kem's journey with that of America's white establishment and its fury of nativism in the 1920s. Presenting crucial narratives of Indigenous resistance, interracial alliance and betrayal, radical feminism, lifelong hauntings, land policy, debt, shame, grief, and avarice from the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, Carr asks whether we can embrace the Populists' profound hopes for a just economy while rejecting the barriers they set up around who was considered fully human, fully worthy of this dreamed society.

Author: Julie Carr
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 05/01/2023
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781496235060


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/26/2023 pg. 1

About the Author
Julie Carr is a professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author or coauthor of numerous books of poetry and prose, including 100 Notes on Violence, Someone Shot My Book, and Real Life: An Installation.

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