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Andrew Jolivette is an accomplished educator, writer, speaker and social/cultural critic. His work spans many different social and political arenas--from education reform and LGBT/Queer community of color identity issues to mixed-race identity, whiteness studies, gay marriage and AIDS disparities among people of color.
Jolivette is an associate professor in American Indian Studies, Educational Leadership, and Critical Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. He recently completed a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship through the National Academy of Sciences.
Jolivette is the author of two books, Cultural Representation in Native America (AltaMira Press), which is a part of the Contemporary Native American Communities Series and Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity (Lexington Books, January 2007).
He is currently working on two new books, Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History, in which he will explore how race and sexuality intersect to create social and sexual risk. His fourth book, Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority, seeks to understand the impact of President Obama's biracial identity on the election campaign of 2008, on Obama's first 100 days in office and what his historic election might mean for the current battle for a new American majority. |
