{"id":48232,"date":"2016-07-11T22:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48232"},"modified":"2016-07-11T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:26:35","slug":"qa-with-indian-blood-author-andrew-j-jolivette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48232","title":{"rendered":"Q&A with \u2018Indian Blood\u2019 author Andrew J. Jolivette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q&A with \u2018Indian Blood\u2019 author Andrew J. Jolivette<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Washington Press Blog<\/a>
\n2016-06-24<\/p>\n

In his new book <\/em>Indian Blood: HIV & Colonial Trauma in San Francisco\u2019s Two-Spirit Community<\/a>, Andrew J. Jolivette<\/a> examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV\/AIDS<\/a> among Native American gay men and transgendered people, and provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ \u201ctwo-spirit<\/a>\u201d identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2014and religious conversion\u2014attitudes 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

Using surveys, focus groups, and community discussions to examine the experiences of HIV-positive members of San Francisco\u2019s<\/a> two-spirit community, <\/em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n

We spoke with Jolivette about his book, published this spring.<\/em><\/p>\n

What inspired you to get into your field?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew J. Jolivette<\/strong>: American Indian studies<\/a> is in my blood. I felt I had a commitment and a responsibility to give back to my community and I also felt that it was important that more Native perspectives be centered and not just represented or driven by outsiders…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q&A with \u2018Indian Blood\u2019 author Andrew J. Jolivette University of Washington Press Blog 2016-06-24 In his new book Indian Blood: HIV & Colonial Trauma in San Francisco\u2019s Two-Spirit Community, Andrew J. Jolivette examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV\/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, and provides an analysis of the emerging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,666,2039,13743,8,3015,20],"tags":[368,72,19126],"class_list":["post-48232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-gaylesbian","category-health-medicine","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-andrew-j-jolivette","tag-andrew-jolivette","tag-university-of-washington-press-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48233,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48232\/revisions\/48233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}