Andrew Jolivétte is an American sociologist and author. He is a professor at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...

, where he is chair of the department of

Ethnic Studies Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by indivi ...

. He is the co-chair of UC Ethnic Studies Council.

Background

Andrew James Jolivette was born in San Francisco in 1975 to Annetta Donan Foster Jolivette and Kenneth Louis Jolivette. Born and raised in San Francisco, CA, Jolivette lived in the Bay Area for decades before moving to Southern California. He is of Louisiana Creole descent. Jolivette is a member of the

Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Louisiana The Atakapa Ishak Nation, officially named the Atakapa Ishak Tribe of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, is a cultural heritage organization of individuals who identify as descendants of the Atakapa people. The Atakapa Ishak Nation is an ...

, a

nonprofit organization A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...

based in

Lake Charles, Louisiana Lake Charles is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, fifth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the county seat, parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles (Louisiana), Lake Char ...

, that is an

unrecognized tribe These organizations, located within the United States, self-identify as Native American tribes, heritage groups, or descendant communities, but they are not federally recognized or state-recognized as Native American tribes. The U.S. Governmental ...

. While the organization claims descent from

Atakapa The Atakapa Sturtevant, 659 or Atacapa were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, who spoke the Atakapa language and historically lived along the Gulf of Mexico in what is now Texas and Louisiana. They included several distinct b ...

, also known as Ishak, it is neither a

federally recognized tribe A federally recognized tribe is a Native American tribe recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. In the United States, the Native American tribe ...

or a

state-recognized tribe State-recognized tribes in the United States are Native American tribes or heritage groups that do not meet the criteria for federally recognized Indian tribes but have been recognized by state government through laws, governor's executive orders ...

Education

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 The University of San Francisco (USF) is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit university in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 1855, it has nearly 9,000 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees ...

. He earned his master's degree in sociology from

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a Public university, public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is ...

in 1999. His thesis was titled, "Native America: White Indians, Black Indians and the Contemporary Privilege of Color." He earned his doctoral degree in sociology from the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

in 2003, with a dissertation titled "Creole Diaspora: (Re)articulating the Social, Legal, Economic, and Regional Construction of American Indian Identity."

Career

Jolivétte was a professor and chair of the

American Indian studies Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and co ...

department at San Francisco State University from 2010 to 2016. 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

, 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.

Bibliography

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Anthologies

* ''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).

References

External links

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