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

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Superior document:Indigenous Americas
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Indigenous Americas.
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Physical Description:xxxvi, 270 p.
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Table of 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.