Andrew Jolivette

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Andrew Jolivette (Opelousa/Atakapa-Ishak), author/sociologist

Andrew Jolivette (Opelousa/Atakapa-Ishak) Ph.D., is an accomplished educator, writer, speaker, and social/cultural critic. His work spans many different social and political arenas - from education reform and cultural representation in Native America to community of color identity issues, critical mixed-race movement building, critical whiteness studies, and AIDS disparities within Indigenous and people of color communities. Dr. Jolivette received a Bachelor's degree in Sociology with a double minor in Ethnic Studies and English Literature from the University of San Francisco, a Master's degree in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in American Indian Studies from San Francisco State University, a Master's degree and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jolivette is an associate professor in the American Indian Studies Department[1] he also teaches in Educational Leadership and Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. He recently completed a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship through the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Jolivette has also received grants and awards from the K & F Baxter Foundation, the Jacques Johnet American Indian Scholarship, the University of California Chancellor's Graduate Student Fellowship, and the M-RISP and RIMI Programs at San Francisco State University.

He is a mixed-race studies specialist with a particular interest in Comparative Race Relations, Creole studies, Black-Indians, and mixed-race health disparities. He has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and a Researcher with the University of California, San Francisco on issues of racial violence among African American and Latino/a youth in the Bay Area. Before coming to San Francisco State University, Jolivette was the Dean of Middle School Students and Multicultural Programs at Presidio Hill School in San Francisco and has also served as the Interim Principal for Cross-Cultural Environmental Leadership Academy (XCEL)a public charter high school in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Books, Publications and Media

Professor Jolivette is the author of two books, Cultural Representation in Native America (AltaMira Press, 2006)[2] which is a part of the Contemporary Native American Communities Series and Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity (Lexington Books, 2007)[3]. He is currently working on two new books. His third book, Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV in the San Francisco Bay Area explores 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. He has appeared on Bay Native Cirlce Radio, KALW-FM, public radio,[4] on ACCESS San Francisco's Red Road television show, and is featured in the film, Echoes of Yourself in The Mirror: AIDS The Long Journey to Good Bye.

Professor Jolivette is the editor of a special volume of the American Indian Cultural and Research Journal (UCLA) entitled, "Indigenous Landscapes Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster" which examines the state of Native American tribes and communities two years after Hurricane Katrina. He is the co-author of A Report on the Health and Wellness of Multiracial Youth in the Bay Area. His work has also appeared in the Ethnic Studies Review Journal, Crash Course: Reflections on the Film Crash for Critical Dialogues About Race, Power and Privilege (2007), Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities (2005) edited by John Brown Childs, and in the forthcoming anthology, Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective (Spring, 2010).

Community Work

Dr. Jolivette has done work with the Agape Foundation which works for peace in both national and international contexts. He recently served on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission's Special Task Force on the Status of Native Americans. He is the board president of the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture - Speak Out[5], the former Board President of iPride[6], a national organization for mixed heritage and transracially adopted youth and their families. He is also a college speaker with the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture and has delivered keynotes at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Stanford University; Ramapo College of New Jersey; the University of San Francisco, Pasadena City College; the University of Washington, Seattle; Lafayette College in Pennsylvania; the University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Brown University, Providence; The University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore; Syracuse University; Emmanuel College, Boston; Eastern Washington University; at the 19th Annual Washington State Students of Color Conference in Yakima; at the American College and Personnel Association Conference in St. Louis; at the California Council of Cultural Centers in Higher Education Directors Conference in Irvine; at San Francisco State University as well as at local middle schools and high schools throughout Northern California. He is the scheduled keynote speaker for events at Tulsa Community College, Seattle Central College, Seattle University, Lewis & Clark College, Spokane Falls Community College, Bellevue Community College, at The Evergreen State College, Highland Community College, the University of Florida, and at Northeastern University (Boston) in the fall of 2009 and at the NASPA (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators) Conference in Chicago in March 2010.

Jolivette is a Creole of Opelousa, Choctaw, Atakapa-Ishak, Cherokee, French, African, and Spanish descent. He currently serves as the Tribal Historian for the Atakapa-Ishak Nation and as a Board Member of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. Jolivette is also a member of the Bay Area Association for the Preservation of Creole Culture. As a descendant of the Creoles of Louisiana, Dr. Jolivette is personally and professionally aware of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on issues of race and ethnicity in the United States and is actively working with the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center [7] on a Creole Heritage Recognition Bill to add a Louisiana Creole ethnicity category to the 2010 U.S. Census.