Arnetta pours libations for Black TikTok and discusses anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity with American author Dr. Andrew Jolivétte.
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Dr. Andrew Jolivétte (Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Louisiana [Tsikip/Opelousa/Heron Clan]) is Professor and Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego, as well as the founding Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at UC San Diego. A former professor and Department Chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, he is the author or editor of nine books in print or forthcoming, including the Lammy Award-nominated, Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community. His scholarship examines Native American, Indigenous, Creole, Black, Latinx, Queer, Mixed-Race, and Comparative Critical Ethnic Studies. Dr. Jolivétte is the 2020-21, MultiRacial Network Scholar in Residence for the American College Personnel Association and the Series Editor of Black Indigenous Futures and Speculations at Routledge. His current book project, Thrivance Circuitry: Queer Afro-Indigenous Futurity and Kinship, is under contract with the University of Washington Press. He is the Board President of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco and the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture (Speak Out). Dr. Jolivétte was recently appointed to the editorial review boards of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and to the new Journal of Transdisciplinary Trauma Studies. A former Indigenous Peoples representative to the United Nations Forum on HIV and the Law, he has spoken to thousands of college students, educators, government employees, private and non-profit sector organizations over the past two decades across the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia. Jolivette is a Louisiana Creole of West African, Ishak, French, Spanish, Italian, and Irish descent.
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Also, check out these articles from Today and NPR about the #BlackTikTokStrike.
A few readings to consider:
1. Black Americans Sue to Reclaim Native American Identity (Article) by Caleb Gayle
2. Louisiana Creole Peoplehood & Indian Blood by Andrew Jolivette
3. Who's Afraid of Black Indians? by Shonda Buchanan
4. African and Native Americans by Jack D. Forbes
5. Black Indian Slave Narratives edited by Patrick Minges
