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  • France Winddance Twine | Digging Up the Past: Race & Class in Brazil

    The From Slavery to Freedom Lab welcomed France Winddance Twine on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of her book, “Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil.” Dr. Twine reflected on intersectionality and racial, gender, and class politics in Brazil and the future of Brazilian Studies.

  • How Not To Talk About Race And Genetics

    Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Democratization of Beauty?: Skin Bleaching, Skin Bronzing and the Global Market in Color Enhancement”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Democratization of Beauty?: Skin Bleaching, Skin Bronzing and the Global Market in Color Enhancement” University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-12-12, 10:30 PST (Local Time) France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The seminar series “Race and…

  • The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released Summer, 2013

    The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released on Summer, 2013 Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies c/o Department of Sociology SSMS Room 3005 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California  93106-9430 E-Mail: socjcmrs@soc.ucsb.edu 2012-10-10 The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to developing the field of Critical Mixed…

  • Feminist Race Theorist and Sociologist to Lecture

    Feminist Race Theorist and Sociologist to Lecture Hamilton College, Clinton New York College News 2012-04-07 France Winddance Twine, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a lecture on Tuesday, April 10, at 4:15 p.m., in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. Twine will discuss “The Future of Anti-Racism & Racial Literacy…

  • Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil

    This groundbreaking ethnographic study analyzes everyday practices that leave intact the myth that Brazil is a racial democracy.

  • A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

    “A White Side of Black Britain” explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of…

  • White Americans, The New Minority? Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness

    White Americans, The New Minority? Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Journal of Black Studies Volume 28, Number 2 (November 1997) pages 200-218 Argues that in the United States…

  • White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families

    White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 292-312 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372306 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon…

  • A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy

    A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 27, Issue 6 November 2004 pages 878 – 907 DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000268512 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the…