Professor Andrew Jolivétte to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks ChatPosted in Audio, Gay & Lesbian, Interviews, Live Events, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2012-04-11 04:03Z by Steven |
Professor Andrew Jolivétte to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat
Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival)
Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier
Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks)
Episode: 252-Professor Andrew Jolivétte
When: Wednesday, 2012-04-11, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT)
Andrew Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies
Center for Health Disparities Research and Training
San Fransisco State University
Dr. Jolivétte is a mixed-race studies specialist with a particular interest in Comparative Race Relations, the Urban Indian Experience, People of Color and Popular Culture, Critical Mixed Race Studies and Social Justice, Creole studies, Black-Indians, and mixed-race health disparities. He has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and a Researcher with the University of California, San Francisco on issues of racial violence among African American and Latino/a youth in the Bay Area.
Dr. Jolivétte is the edtitor and contributor to the recent anthology tittled, Obama and the Biracial Factor, which is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor in the election of President Obama and examines the sociological and political relationship between race, power, and public policy in the United States with an emphasis on public discourse and ethnic representation in his election.
Selected Bibliography:
- Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority (editor), 2012.
- Cultural Representation in Native America, 2006
- Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, 2006
Listen to the interview here.