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Article: University of Minnesota Press.(Like a Loaded Weapon : The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America)(Citizen Spy : Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- April 1, 2006
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Two excellent guides survey very different cultural and social issues. Robert A. Williams Jr.'s LIKE A LOADED WEAPON: THE REHNQUIST COURT, INDIAN RIGHTS, AND THE LEGAL HISTORY OF RACISM IN AMERICA (0816647100, $18.95) blends Native American issues with overall racism issues, using these issues to consider how racist language are still used in Indian law to deny rights. Racist language has long legalized a form of racial superiority of whites in America, Williams argues: his ...