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 des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
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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