Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse
communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices
to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole
culture. ...Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and
Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine this rich culture,
Louisiana Creoles have found transformative ways to uphold
solidarity, kinship, and continuity, retaking Louisiana Creole
agency as a post-contact Afro-Indigenous culture. Engaging themes
as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma,
language revitalization, and diaspora, Louisiana Creole
Peoplehood explores vital ways a specific Afro-Indigenous
community asserts agency while promoting cultural sustainability,
communal dialogue, and community reciprocity.
With interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions from
community members and scholars, Louisiana Creole
Peoplehood tracks the sacred interweaving of land and identity
alongside the legacies and genealogies of Creole resistance to
bring into focus the Afro-Indigenous people who have been negated
and written out of settler governmental policy. In doing so, this
collection intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity to
foreground Black/Indian cultural sustainability, agency, and
self-determination.
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies
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.
Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person ...of color to the White House. None of these works though delves into the intricacies of Mr. Obama's biracial background and what it means. Obama and the Biracial Factor 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 .
Jolivette and his co-authors bring biracial identity and multiraciality to forefront of our understanding of racial projects since his election. Additionally the authors assert the salience of mixed-race identity in U.S. policy and the on-going impact of the media and popular culture on the development, implementation, and interpretation of government policy and ethnic relations in the U.S. and globally.
Obama and the Biracial Factor speaks to a wide array of academic disciplines ranging from political science and public policy to sociology and ethnic studies.
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"Critical Mixed Race Studies: New Directions in the Politics of Race and Representation” was Andrew J. Jolivétte’s keynote address at the inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, November 5, ...2010, at DePaul University. Jolivétte posits critical mixed-race pedagogy as a model for developing intersectional coalitions across various categories of difference composed of a "new American majority" (people of color, queers, women, immigrants, and youth), which was in fact President Barack Obama’s 2012 winning coalition. This shifts racial formation and social change from binary constructions to more multivalent approaches to achieving human rights and social justice. Taken to a logical conclusion, mixed-race pedagogy could also serve as a similar organizing principle for international movements for equity and social justice.
An examination of mixed-race identity within the context of religious, ethnic, racial and media representations and discourse during the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign.
An exploration of the parallels between the rise of the Civil Rights Movement and the death of Emmett Till with the election of President Barack Obama is offered to demonstrate the role of critical ...mixed race pedagogy in shifting ideological discourse in the United States as it relates to social justice, equity, and cross-ethnic coalitions.
Recent studies using known Rho-associated kinase isoform 1 (ROCK1) inhibitors along with cellular and molecular biology data have revealed a pivotal role of this enzyme in many aspects of ...cardiovascular function. Here we report a series of ROCK1 inhibitors which were originally derived from a dihydropyrimidinone core 1. Our efforts focused on the optimization of dihydropyrimidine 2, which resulted in the identification of a series of dihydropyrimidines with improved pharmacokinetics and P450 properties.
Identification as multiracial brings with it a multitude of potential challenges, even in 2016. While there is a growing body of literature on the subject of mixedrace identity and an even more ...promising body of work focusing on critical mixed-race studies, people of mixed descent continue to experience a high degree of cognitive dissonance and ambivalence as a result of the perceived power and privilege they are able to obtain by occupying multiracial spaces. One form this dissonance can take is what I term the mixed-race metronomic subject, an individual who is assumed to identify mechanically or unvaryingly with the
The relocation program sponsored by the U.S. government began in the aftermath of World War II, as American Indian veterans and others moved away from reservations and rural communities to larger ...metropolitan areas across the country (see Fixico 2000). Initially this was a voluntary migration, but by the early 1950s, it had expanded into a formal program. As Fixico explains, though it began as “an experiment to relocate employable Navajos to Denver, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles, the program officially extended services to all qualified American Indians in 1952” (4). Like other migrating populations, those who were a part
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