Andrew Jolivette

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Andrew Jolivétte
Born	Andrew James Jolivette 1975
Nationality	American
Occupation	Sociologist
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Santa Cruz
Thesis	Creole Diaspora: (Re)articulating the Social, Legal, Economic, and Regional Construction of American Indian Identity (2003)
Academic work
Discipline	Ethnic studies
Institutions	University of California–San Diego

Andrew Jolivétte is an American sociologist and author. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he is chair of the department of Ethnic Studies.^[1] He is the co-chair of UC Ethnic Studies Council.^[2]

Andrew James Jolivette^[3] was born in San Francisco in 1975 to Annetta Donna Foster Jolivette and Kenneth Louis Jolivette. He grew up in San Francisco.^[4] He identifies as being of Louisiana Creole descent.

Jolivette is a member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Louisiana, a nonprofit organization based in Lake Charles, Louisiana,^[5] that is an unrecognized tribe. While the organization claims descent from Atakapa, also known as Ishak, it is neither a federally recognized tribe or a state-recognized tribe.^[6]

Jolivette earned his bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in English literature and a certificate in ethnic studies from the University of San Francisco.^[4] He earned his master's degree in sociology from San Francisco State University in 1999. His thesis was titled, "Native America: White Indians, Black Indians and the Contemporary Privilege of Color."^[3] He earned his doctoral degree in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003, with a dissertation titled "Creole Diaspora: (Re)articulating the Social, Legal, Economic, and Regional Construction of American Indian Identity."^[7]

Jolivétte was a professor and chair of the American Indian studies department at San Francisco State University from 2010 to 2016.^[8]

He became the founding Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Program at the University of California, San Diego, in 2020. The NAIS Program includes a minor and a graduate certificate and an elder/culture bearer-in-residence program. He served as a historian of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation, an unrecognized tribe, from 2005 to 2010. He co-founded and is co-chair of the University of California Ethnic Studies Council which works to advance and support ethnic studies curriculum and programs across the state of California and the United States.^{[citation needed]}

• Cultural Representation in Native America. Rowman Altamira. 2006. ISBN 0-7591-0985-0.
• Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-race Native American Identity. Lexington Books. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7391-1896-2.
• Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority. Policy Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1447301004.^[9]
• Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change. Policy Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1447324638.
• Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community. University of Washington Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0295998503.
• American Indian and Indigenous Education: A Survey Text for the 21st Century. Cognella. 2019. ISBN 978-1516590438.
• Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community. University of Washington Press. 2021. ISBN 9780295749495.
• Gumbo Circuitry: Poetic Routes, Gastronomic Legacies. That Painted Horse Press. 2022. ISBN 978-1928708155.

• Crash Course: Reflections on the Film Crash for Critical Dialogues About Race, Power, and Privilege, ed. Michael Benitez Jr. and Felicia Gustin (2007).
• John Brown Childs, Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities, ed. John Brown Childs (2005)
• "Critical Mixed Race Studies: New Approaches to Resistance and Social Justice," in Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective, ed. Julius Adekunle and Hettie V Williams (2010).^[10]

• Andrew Jolivétte, PhD, Social Innovation & University Opportunity Lab