France Winddance Twine

France Winddance Twine (born in Chicago, Illinois) is professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her research is concerned with the intersections of racial, gender and class inequalities as an interlocking system. Her areas of interest and teaching include gender, girlhood, racism and anti-racism, feminist theory, critical race theory, field research methods, whiteness studies, and multiracial and transracial families.

As an American sociologist, feminist theorist and ethnographer she has conducted extensive field research in Brazil, Britain and the United States. She has been widely published in European, North and South American journals in English and Brazilian Portuguese. Her research has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Professor Twine is the Deputy Editor of American Sociological Review, the journal of the American Sociological Association and serves on the editorial boards of Ethnic and Racial Studies. She has also served on the boards of Feminist Studies, and .

She is also known for developing the concept of "racial literacy" and for expanding the use of photographs in sociological analysis (visual sociology).

Academic positions held

*2008-2009 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
*2007 Visiting Professor The Gender Institute and Department of Sociology The London School of Economics and Political Science
*2003- Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbara
*2003-05 Professor of Sociology Duke University (on leave from University of California at Santa Barbara )
*1997-2002 Assistant to Full Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbara
*1998-2000 Associate Professor of International Studies & Women Studies Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington at Seattle
*1997-1998 Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbara
*1994-97 Assistant Professor of Women Studies University of Washington at Seattle

elected publications

Books

*"Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice", (2001), New York University Press, co-edited with Kathleen Blee
*"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 , 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", Rutgers University Press

Journal articles

*"The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy", with 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 Ethnic and Racial Studies (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 Ethnic and Racial Studies, (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", Journal of Black Studies, 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 Library [ [http://www.filmakers.com Filmakers Library ] ]

References

Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North" by John T. McGreevy University of Chicago Press, 1996.

External links

* [http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/twine.htm France Twine's page at UCSB]