"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."
By:
Andrew J. Jolivétte,
Andrew Jolivaette
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780295998077
ISBN 10: 0295998075
Series: Indigenous Confluences
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 June 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Andrew J. Jolivette is professor and chair of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity.
Reviews for Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
"""A welcome addition to the small but growing health literature about gay and transgendered mixed-race Native men, the work stands as a significant contribution that will certainly initiate further discussion, debate, and empirical investigations. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries."" * Choice *"
- Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys) 2017
- Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys) 2017 (United States)
