- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 157 pages)
- Summary
- "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"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Indian Blood (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Indian Blood (Online)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-152) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Indian blood : two-spirit return in the face of colonial haunting -- Two-spirit cultural dissolution : HIV and healing among mixed-race American Indians -- Historical and intergenerational trauma and radical love -- Gender and racial discrimination against mixed-race American Indian two-spirits -- Mixed-race identity, cognitive dissonance, and public health -- Sexual violence and transformative ancestor spirits -- Stress coping in urban Indian kinship networks -- Two-spirit return : intergenerational healing and cultural leadership among mixed-race American Indians.
- ISBN
- 9780295998077 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 9780295998503 (paperback : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2015047434
- OCLC
- ssj0001639961
- Author
Jolivétte, Andrew, 1975-
- Title
Indian Blood [electronic resource] : HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community / Andrew J. Jolivette.
- Imprint
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-152) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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