Like a loaded weapon [electronic resource] : the Rehnquist court, Indian rights, and the legal history of racism in America / Robert A. Williams, Jr.

By: Williams, Robert A, 1955-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Indigenous AmericasPublication details: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2005Description: xxxvi, 270 pSubject(s): Rehnquist, William H., 1924-2005 | United States. Supreme Court | Indians of North America -- Civil rights -- History | Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History | Racism -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 342.7308/72 LOC classification: KF8210.C5 | W55 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"Look, Mom, a baby maid!" : the languages of racism -- The Supreme Court and the legal history of racism in America -- "The savage as the wolf" : the founders' language of Indian savagery -- Indian rights and the Marshall Court -- The rise of the plenary power doctrine -- What "every American schoolboy knows" : the language of Indian savagery in Tee-Hit-Ton -- Rehnquist's language of racism in Oliphant -- The most Indianophobic Supreme Court Indian law opinion ever -- The dangers of the twentieth-century Supreme Court's Indian rights decisions -- Expanding Oliphant's principle of racial discrimination : Nevada v. Hicks -- The court's schizophrenic approach to Indian rights : United States v. Lara.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Look, Mom, a baby maid!" : the languages of racism -- The Supreme Court and the legal history of racism in America -- "The savage as the wolf" : the founders' language of Indian savagery -- Indian rights and the Marshall Court -- The rise of the plenary power doctrine -- What "every American schoolboy knows" : the language of Indian savagery in Tee-Hit-Ton -- Rehnquist's language of racism in Oliphant -- The most Indianophobic Supreme Court Indian law opinion ever -- The dangers of the twentieth-century Supreme Court's Indian rights decisions -- Expanding Oliphant's principle of racial discrimination : Nevada v. Hicks -- The court's schizophrenic approach to Indian rights : United States v. Lara.

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