title: Intersecting discourses on race and sexuality: compounded colonization among LGBTTQ American Indians/Alaska Natives.
abstract: This article examines discourses on race and sexuality in scientific literature during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in context of U.S. settler colonialism. It uses a theoretical and methodological intersectional perspective to identify rhetorical strategies deployed in discursive representations salient to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Two-Spirit, and queer American Indians and Alaska Natives. These representations reflect a context of compounded colonization, a historical configuration of co-constituting discourses based on cultural and ideological assumptions that invidiously marked a social group with consequential, continued effects. Hence, language is a vector of power and a critical vehicle in the project of decolonization.
authors.affiliation: Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1106, USA. jeanswa@umich.edu
authors.forename: Jean E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Balestrery
mesh_terms: D000413:Alaska; D001727:Bisexuality / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D018595:Colonialism / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology*; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology*; D007802:Language; D008091:Literature; D008297:Male; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology*; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States