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Summary:

Scope and content: "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.

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Jolivétte, Andrew, 1975- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Indian blood: HIV and colonial trauma in San Francisco's two-spirit community [by Jolivétte, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Indian blood [by Jolivétte, A.] (Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016 — ISBN 9780295998077; LCCN 2015047434; OCLC Number 932003603)

Related Series:

Indigenous confluences

Subjects:

Two-spirit people — California — San Francisco — Social conditions

Indian gays — California — San Francisco — Social conditions

Racially mixed people — California — San Francisco — Social conditions

Racially mixed people — California — San Francisco — Ethnic identity

HIV-positive gay men — California — San Francisco — Social conditions

Public health — California — San Francisco

Indians of North America — Colonization — Social aspects

Psychic trauma — Social aspects — United States

Intergenerational relations — United States

San Francisco (Calif.) — Ethnic relations

Two-spirit people

Intergenerational relationships

Social conditions

Indian gays — Social conditions

Indian gays

Racially mixed people

Ethnicity

HIV-positive gay men.

Public health

Indians of North America — Colonization

Indians of North America

Social aspects

Psychic trauma — Social aspects

Psychic trauma

Intergenerational relations

Ethnic relations

California — San Francisco

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

E98.S48 J65 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780295998497 (electronic bk.)
0295998490 (electronic bk.)
9780295998077 [Invalid]
0295998075 [Invalid]
9780295998503 [Invalid]
0295998504 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 99968156589

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015047434

OCLC Numbers:

945976517