Research Catalog

Title

Indian blood : HIV and colonial trauma in San Francisco's two-spirit community / Andrew J. Jolivette.

Author

Jolivétte, Andrew, 1975-

Publication

• Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xvi, 157 pages; 23 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Indigenous confluences

Uniform Title

Indigenous confluences.

Subjects

• HIV-positive gay men > California > San Francisco > Social conditions
• Public health > California > San Francisco
• Two-spirit people > California > San Francisco > Social conditions
• San Francisco (Calif.) > Ethnic relations
• Indian gays > California > San Francisco > Social conditions
• Racially mixed people > California > San Francisco > Social conditions
• Indians of North America > Colonization > Social aspects
• Racially mixed people > California > San Francisco > Ethnic identity
• Intergenerational relations > United States
• Psychic trauma > Social aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages145-152) and index.

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
• 0295998075
• 9780295998503
• 0295998504

LCCN

2015047434

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library