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Like a loaded weapon the Rehnquist court, Indian rights, and the legal history of racism in America
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Like a loaded weapon [electronic resource] : the Rehnquist court, Indian rights, and the legal history of racism in America / Robert A. Williams, Jr.
ISBN
0816647097 (hc : alk. paper)
0816647100 (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xxxvi, 270 p.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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July 24, 2013
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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