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Autore |
Williams Robert A. <1955-> |
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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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Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxvi, 270 pages) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indians of North America - Civil rights - History |
Race discrimination - Law and legislation - United States - History |
Racism - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned "like a loaded weapon" in the Supreme Court's Indian law decisions. Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall's foundational opinions in the early nineteenth century and continuing today in the judgments of the Rehnquist Court, Williams shows how undeniably racist language and precedent are still used in Indian law |
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