Like a Loaded Weapon
The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America
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- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2005
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 Reh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780816647101 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0816647100 |
| Author: | Robert Williams Jr. |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 149mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Indigenous Americas |
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Robert Williams Jr.
Robert A. Williams Jr. is professor of law and American Indian studies at the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona. A member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, he is author of The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest and coauthor of Federal Indian Law.
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