The cultivation of resentment : treaty rights and the new right /

This is an examination of how grassroots conservative activists use rights discourse to pursue their political goals. It argues that conservative activists engage in frequent and sincere mobilizations of rights talk - a discourse that includes accusations that socially marginal Americans are seeking...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dudas, Jeffrey R.
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of North America > Treaties.
Conservatism > United States.
Gambling on Indian reservations > Political aspects > United States.
Conservatisme > États-Unis.
Jeux de hasard dans les réserves indiennes > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Conservatism
Indians of North America
United States
Treaties
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rights, resentment, and social change
  • Mobilizing nationhood : the treaty-rights movement and the roots of resentment
  • The countersubversive persuasion : special-rights talk and the anti-treaty-rights movement
  • "This is not equal rights" : U.S. v. Washington and the origins of the anti-treaty-rights movement
  • We don't believe in the promised land : exploring the anti-tribal-casino movement
  • The cultivation of resentment : rights in the theater of culture war.

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