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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Robert A., Jr., 1955-
- Series:
- Indigenous Americas.
- Indigenous Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Civil rights--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Race discrimination.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Rehnquist, William H., 1924-2005.
- Rehnquist, William H.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 270 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9798-1
- OCLC:
- 476095910
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