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

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

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