Like a Loaded Weapon The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America

Name: Like a Loaded Weapon The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America
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ISBN: 9780816647101

ISBN-10: 0816647100

ISBN-13: 9780816647101

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert Williams Jr., Robert A. Williams

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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 to justify the denial of important rights of property, self-government, and cultural survival to Indians.…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.122



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Discovering a Language of Racism in America



"Look, Mom, a Baby Maid!" The Languages of Racism



The Supreme Court and the Legal History of Racism in America



"Signs Taken for Wonders": The Nineteenth-Century Supreme Court and Indian Rights



"The Savage as the Wolf": The Founders' Language of Indian Savagery



Indian Rights and the Marshall Court



The Rise of the Plenary Power Doctrine



The Twentieth-Century Post-Brown Supreme Court and Indian Rights



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



The Rehnquist Court's Perpetuation of Racism against Indians



Expanding Oliphant's Principle of Racial Discrimination: Nevada v. Hicks



The Court's Schizophrenic Approach to Indian Rights: United States v. Lara


Conclusion: The Fifth Element


Notes