Like a loaded weapon

Williams, Robert A., 1955-

Like a loaded weapon the Rehnquist court, Indian rights, and the legal history of racism in America / [electronic resource] : Robert A. Williams, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2005. - xxxvi, 270 p. - Indigenous Americas . - Indigenous Americas. .

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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2009.
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Rehnquist, William H., 1924-2005.


United States. Supreme Court.


Indians of North America--Civil rights--History.
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Racism--History.--United States


Electronic books.

KF8210.C5 / W55 2005eb

342.7308/72