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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., boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Building on the insights of Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, and Frantz Fanon, Williams argues that racist language has been employed by the courts to legalize a uniquely Amer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Indigenous Americas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Discovering a Language of Racism in America; 1. "Look, Mom, a Baby Maid!" The Languages of Racism; 2. The Supreme Court and the Legal History of Racism in America; Part II. "Signs Taken for Wonders": The Nineteenth-Century Supreme Court and Indian Rights; 3. "The Savage as the Wolf": The Founders' Language of Indian Savagery; 4. Indian Rights and the Marshall Court; 5. The Rise of the Plenary Power Doctrine; Part III. The Twentieth-Century Post-Brown Supreme Court and Indian Rights.