Promotional Information

This excellent book helps to fill a huge gap in the Native studies literature about mixed-identity gay men and their struggles with multiple oppressions. -- Renya Ramirez, author of Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond Indian Blood makes a significant contribution to the field as the first major work on Native Americans, HIV/AIDS, mixed-race identity, gender and sexuality, and the urban environment. The scholarship is superior. -- Irene Vernon, author of Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Indian Blood: Two-Spirit Return in the Face of Colonial Haunting

2. Two-Spirit Cultural Dissolution: HIV and Healing among Mixed-Race American Indians

3. Historical and Intergenerational Trauma and Radical Love

4. Gender and Racial Discrimination against Mixed-Race American Indian Two-Spirits

5. Mixed-Race Identity, Cognitive Dissonance, and Public Health

6. Sexual Violence and Transformative Ancestor Spirits

About the Author

Andrew J. Jolivette is professor and chair of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity.

Reviews

"A welcome addition to the small but growing health literature about gay and transgendered mixed-race Native men, the work stands as a significant contribution that will certainly initiate further discussion, debate, and empirical investigations. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries." (Choice)