France Winddance Twine is a Black and Native American sociologist, ethnographer, visual artist. and documentary filmmaker. Twine's research has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research in gender and sexuality studies, racism/anti-racism, feminist studies, science and technology studies, British cultural studies, and qualitative research methods. She has conducted field research in Brazil, the UK, and the United States on race, racism, and anti-racism and has published 11 books and more than 80 articles, review essays, and books on these topics. In 2020 she was awarded the Distinguished Career Award by the Race, Class, and Gender section of the

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for her intellectual, innovative and creative contributions to sociology. Twine is the first sociologist to publish an ethnography on everyday racism in rural Brazil after the end of military dictatorship during the "abertura" (return to democratic rule).

Early life

A native of Chicago, she is the granddaughter of Paul Twine, Sr., a Civil Rights activist and founding member of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, a Civil Rights organization that brought Irish, Italian, German, Polish and Black Catholics together to fight for racial justice.

Education

Twine is a graduate of Northwestern University and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a research fellow in the class of 2008–2009 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at

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. In 2007, she was a distinguished visiting professor in the sociology department at the London School of Economics. She has taught and held tenured professorships at

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and the University of Washington in Seattle. Twine is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of

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. She is the former deputy editor of '' American Sociological Review'', the flagship journal of the

. Twine currently serves as a member of the International editorial boards of ''Sociology'', the official journal of the

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, and the journals '' Social Problems'' and '' Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power''. She has also served on the editorial board of ''

Ethnic and Racial Studies ''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' is a peer-reviewed social science academic journal that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on anthropology, cultural studies, ethnicity and race, and sociology. The editors-in-chief are Martin Bulmer (Unive ...

'', the highest impact peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of racial and ethnic inequalities in the discipline of Sociology. Twine's research examines the intersections of racial, gender and class inequalities on both sides of the Atlantic. Her recent publications include ''Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market '' (2015), ''Geographies of Privilege'' (2013) and ''Girls With Guns: Firearms, Feminism and Militarism'' (2012). She is the editor for the Routledge series, Framing 21st Century Social Issues.

Career

Twine is an ethnographer and feminist race theorist who has over 90 publications including 10 books. She has conducted field research in Brazil, Britain and the United States. Her research has been supported by the

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and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Her recent books include ''Outsourcing the Womb'' ( Routledge, 2015), ''Geographies of Privilege'' Edited by France Winddance Twine, Bradley Gardener ( Routledge, 2013), ''Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism and Militarism'' ( Routledge, 2012), ''A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy'' ( Duke University Press, 2010) and ''Racism in a Racial Democracy: the maintenance of white supremacy in Brazil'' (

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, 1997) and an editor of five volumes including ''Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century: Changes and Challenges'' ( Routledge, 2011) and ''Feminism and Anti-Racism: international struggles for justice'' ( New York University Press, 2000). Her articles, film reviews and book reviews have appeared in English and Brazilian Portuguese in international journals: the '' Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race'', ''

'', ''Estudos Afroasiaticos'', '' Feminist Studies'', '' Meridians: feminism, race, and transnationalism'', '' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'', '' Social Identities'', ''Race and Class'', and '' Gender and Society''. Twine's current research focuses on inequality in Silicon Valley and transnational gestational surrogacy. One of her most important theoretical contributions is the concept of

racial literacy Racial literacy is a concept developed by sociologist France Winddance Twine. She describes it as "a form of racial socialization and antiracist training that ... parents of African-descent children practiced in their efforts to defend their childr ...

which was first published in a 2004 journal article and developed in her book ''A White Side of Black Britain''. Twine was a scholar in residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group (2014–2015).

Academic positions and honors

*2020 Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association * Photo of France Winddance Twine with Oprah Winfrey

2019 Doctorate in Humane Letters honoris causa from Colorado College *2014-2015 Scholar in Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley *2008-2009 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at

*2007 Visiting Professor, The Gender Institute and department of sociology, the London School of Economics and Political Science *2002–present Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara *2003-05 Professor of Sociology,

(on leave from University of California, Santa Barbara ) *2001

Bellagio Center Fellowship *1997-2002 Assistant to Full Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara *1998-2000 Associate Professor of International Studies & Women Studies,

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, University of Washington at Seattle *1997-1998 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara *1994-97 Assistant Professor of Women Studies, University of Washington at Seattle

Selected publications

Books

*''Geek Girls: Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley''. (2022) NYU Press. *''Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market''. Second edition, (2015) Routledge. *''Geographies of Privilege'', (2013) Edited by France Winddance Twine, Bradley Gardener Routledge. *''Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism and Militarism'', (2012) Routledge. *''Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century: Changes and Challenges'' (2011) Routledge, co-edited with

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*''Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market'', (2011) Routledge. *'' A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy'', (2010) Duke University Press. *''Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice'', (2001), New York University Press, co-edited with

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. *''Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality and Nationalism'', (2000), Routledge, co-edited with Helena Ragone. *''Racing Research/Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies'', (2000), New York University Press, co-edited with Jonathan Warren. *''Feminisms and Youth Cultures'', a special issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 23, no. 3, (Spring, 1998), University of Chicago Press, co-edited with Kum Kum Bhavani and Kathryn Kent. *''Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil'', (1997)

Journal articles

*'' Technology's Invisible Women: Black Geek Girls in Silicon Valley and the Failure of Diversity Initiatives''

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, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018): 58–79. *'' Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating Inequality Regimes in the Tech Industry'', Gender & Society, Vol. 31, Issue 1: 28-50 (2017) *''White migrations: Swedish women, gender vulnerabilities and racial privileges'', in European Journal of Women's Studies vol.18, no.1 (2011): 67–86. Coauthored with Catrin Lundstrom. *''The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and

Racial literacy Racial literacy is a concept developed by sociologist France Winddance Twine. She describes it as "a form of racial socialization and antiracist training that ... parents of African-descent children practiced in their efforts to defend their childr ...

'', in '' Du Bois Review'', vol.3, no.2 (2006): 341–363. Coauthored with Amy Steinbugler. *''Visual Ethnography and Racial Theory: family photographs as archives of Interracial Intimacies'', in

(a special issue on ethnography) vol. 29, no. 3 (May, 2006): 487–511. *''A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy'', in

, (a special issue on racial hierarchy) vol. 27, no. 6 (November 2004): 1-30. *''White Americans, the New Minority?: Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness'',

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, vol. 28, no. 2: 200–218. Co-authored with Jonathan Warren *''Brown Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities'', in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 3, no. 2 (July 1996): 204–224. *''O hiato de genero nas percepcoes de racismo: o caso dos afro-brasileiros socialments ascendentes'', in Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, vol. 29 (March 1996) 37–54.

Film productions

*''Just Black?: Multiracial Identity in the U.S.'', (1990), with J. Warren and F. Ferrandiz, New York, Filmakers LibraryJust Black? at Filmakers Library Page
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References

External links

Twine's page at UCSB

Interracial Interview with Twine on marriage and strong black womenTwine's Page at the open access Academia.eduTwine's presentation in Amsterdam in honor of the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia on interracial marriage The panel and audience portion of the June 12, 2014, Loving Day presentation in Amsterdam Link to film, ''Just Black?'' at IMDBColorado College 2019 commencement video2020 Lecture: The Afterlife of Eugenics: Incarcerated Women and the Fertility Continuum
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