Like a loaded weapon the Rehnquist court, Indian rights, and the legal history of racism in America /

Main Author: Williams, Robert A., 1955-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
Series:Indigenous Americas
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10151342
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.