Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary ‘Lammy’ Award in LGBTQ Studies
The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ ‘two-spirit’ identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity.
Prior to contact with European settlers, most Native American tribes held their two-spirit members in high esteem, even considering them spiritually advanced. However, after contact – and religious conversion – attitudes changed and social and cultural support networks were ruptured. This discrimination led to a breakdown in traditional values, beliefs, and practices, which in turn pushed many two-spirit members to participate in high-risk behaviors. The result is a disproportionate number of two-spirit members who currently test positive for HIV.
Using surveys, focus groups, and community discussions to examine the experiences of HIV-positive members of San Francisco’s two-spirit community, Indian Blood provides an innovative approach to understanding how colonization continues to affect American Indian communities and opens a series of crucial dialogues in the fields of Native American studies, public health, queer studies, and critical mixed-race studies.
Table of Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Indian Blood: Two-Spirit Return in the Face of Colonial Haunting
2. Two-Spirit Cultural Dissolution: HIV and Healing among Mixed-Race American Indians
3. Historical and Intergenerational Trauma and Radical Love
4. Gender and Racial Discrimination against Mixed-Race American Indian Two-Spirits
5. Mixed-Race Identity, Cognitive Dissonance, and Public Health
6. Sexual Violence and Transformative Ancestor Spirits
About the author
Andrew Jolivétte is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community (University of Washington Press, 2016), Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change (Policy Press, 2015), Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (Lexington Books, 2007), and Cultural Representation in Native America (Alta Mira Press, 2006).
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