France Winddance Twine is a Black and Native American
documentary filmmaker. Twine has conducted field research in Brazil, the UK, and the United States
on race, racism, and anti-racism. She has published 11 books and more than 100 articles, review essays, and books on these topics.
Through her research, she has contributed to the study of
feminism, science and technology, British culture, and qualitative research methods. In 2020, she was awarded the Distinguished Career Award by the Race, Class, and Gender section of the American Sociological Association
for her 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 Q.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.Her great grandfather was William Henry Twine (1862-1933), a Creek Nation civil rights attorney who published "The Cimiter", the first black run newspaper in what was then Indian territory.[1]
Twine is a registered member of the Creek Nation (Tribal enrollment number 45464).
Education
Twine earned a B.S. at Northwestern University and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the
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.[6]
Career
Twine is an
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),[7]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 (Rutgers University Press, 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
gestational surrogacy. One of her most important theoretical contributions is the concept of racial literacy
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).[8]
Academic positions and honors
2020 Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association
Twine receiving an honorary degree alongside Oprah Winfrey in 20192019 Doctorate in Humane Letters honoris causa from Colorado College
Technology's Invisible Women: Black Geek Girls in Silicon Valley and the Failure of Diversity Initiatives
International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies
, 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
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[10]
References
^McGreevy, John T. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
^UCBS Sociology Department: France Winddance Twine. (retrieved 19 April 2010)
