In Alexis de Tocqueville's words,"the United States ha[s] accomplished this twofold purpose [of extermination of Indians and deprivation of rights]...legally, philanthropically,...and without violating a single great principle of morality in the eyes of the world. It is impossible to destroy men with more respect for the laws of humanity." I ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA 355 (Phillips Bradley ed. & Henry Reeve trans., 1945) (1835). As Rennard Strickland argues, these acts by the United States constituted genocide-at-law. See Rennard Strickland, Genocide-at-law: An Historic and Contemporary View of the Native American Experience, 34 KAN. L. REV. 713, 714-15 (1986).
-WHITENESS AS PROPERTY by Cheryl I. Harris Harvard Law Review
Volume 106 June 1993 Number 8 pg.1722-1723
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