What is indigeneity?
What does it have to do with race?
How does indigeneity translate across the borders of settler states?
How does it intersect with gender, sexuality, and other categories of identity?
INDIGENOUS INTERSECTIONS
Convened by CSUS’s 2018-19 Bissell-Heyd Fellow, Jed Kuhn, Indigenous Intersections is a monthly reading group that critically examines indigeneity across the North American contexts of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Each month, interested University of Toronto faculty and graduate students are invited to join the group to read and discuss a common text that investigates an aspect of indigenous life, identity, politics, and sovereignty.
READING SELECTION: February 2019
Andrew Jolivétte’s Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community (2016).
Available online through the University of Toronto Library.
In Indian Blood, Dr. Andrew Jolivétte examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men, trans individuals, and twospirit individuals. Located at the intersections of Indigenous studies, queer studies, mixed-race studies, and public health, this ethnography explores the long impact of colonial trauma on two-spirited Native people as well as possibilities for healing and decolonization.
Andrew Jolivétte (French Creole, Opelousa/Atakapa-Ishak, West African, Spanish) is a Professor and former chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University.
DATE: Monday, February 25, 2019
TIME: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
LOCATION: Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N (North House)
RSVP: jed.kuhn@utoronto.ca
Jed Kuhn is Assistant Professor of History and Women/Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga campus, Department of Historical Studies and the 2018-19 Bissell-Heyd Fellow for the Centre for the Study of the United States. In addition to the reading group, Prof Kuhn will be convening a public symposium on the theme of “Indigenous Intersections” in the Spring of 2019 which will feature prominent and emerging scholars in the field from the United States. Stay tuned for more details in the new year!
*Please note the reading group is open to University of Toronto faculty and graduate students only, while the symposium in the Spring will be open to the wider university community and public.
This program is funded by the Bissell-Heyd Fellowship courtesy of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. The Bissell-Heyd Fellowship was established in 2016 as a way to advance the research of assistant or associate professors at the University of Toronto whose scholarly work focuses on the Americas.
