France Winddance Twine
Biographic Data
| ID | 79213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | France Winddance Twine |
| GIVEN NAMES | France Winddance |
| FAMILY NAME | Twine |
| SIGNATURE | TWINE F W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2655-1770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 744 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Rethinking How Teen Geeks Learn in the Digital Age
Millennial Messiahs, Female Fixers, and Corporate Boards
This article explores how television dramas function as a cultural forum on the workplace power dynamics of US tech startups. Focusing on the limited series, Super Pumped and WeCrashed, which are about Uber and WeWork, the authors analyze how relations of race, class, and gender/sexuality emerge in these narrativized techworlds via several “figures,” including white male founders/CEOs or “millennial messiahs,” “female fixers” that range from exec…
Geek Girls
An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industry Why is being a computer “geek” still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a growing number of employment discrimination lawsuits has called attention to a persistent pattern of gender discrimination in the tech world. Much has been written about the industry’s failure to ade…
Queer decisions
How does race and location shape the reproductive decisions of gay men who are intended parents? In this article, we propose the concept of strategic racialization to characterize the ways in which gay male parents employ racial matching in their selection of egg donors and surrogates in the United States and United Kingdom. We argue that racial matching is a strategy of stigma management. This study draws upon interview data from 40 gay male cou…
Technology's Invisible Women
Black women comprise 1% of the Silicon Valley workforce. Between 2015 and 2018, several major technology firms made “diversity pledges” yet these diversity initiatives have failed to produce any significant increases in the number of Black women in the technology industry. This article draws upon a qualitative study of 68 male and female technology workers employed in the San Francisco Bay area. This qualitative study contributes to gender studie…
Making and breaking families – reading queer reproductions, stratified reproduction and reproductive justice together
Gender-Fluid Geek Girls
How do technically-skilled women negotiate the male-dominated environments of technology firms? This article draws upon interviews with female programmers, technical writers, and engineers of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual orientations employed in the San Francisco tech industry. Using intersectional analysis, this study finds that racially dominant (white and Asian) women, who identified as LGBTQ and presented as gender-fluid, reported a …
From wave to tsunami
Steve Garner has provided a through and far reaching critique on the extent to which a "Third Wave" perspective on whiteness has (or has not) lived up to the theoretical promises and epistemologica
Visual Sociology in a Discipline of Words
This article analyzes the limitations of qualitative research methods that over-privilege textual analysis in North American sociology graduate programs. I argue that visual literacy, as a methodological tool, is neglected and marginalized in the graduate curriculum. Training in visual culture including the use of photography, film and video, can contribute to theoretically grounded empirical research on race and racism. A form of academic aparth…
The racial body is gendered
In The Racial Order, Emirbayer and Desmond offer a systematic theory of race. The social psychology of race is central to the theoretical framework of this book. In their discussion of bodily aesthetics, bodily cognition, and bodily morality, they neglect the important theoretical insights and empirical contributions of feminist sociologists who have studied the racialized and gendered body. The exclusion of the intersectional research of feminis…
Geographies of Privilege
Southern Spain is one of the most attractive places in Europe for so-called lifestyle migrants to live and retire.Most of them come to the Spanish Sunbelt from Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries.The presence of Northern European migration is striking in the coastal towns of Fuengirola, Marbella, and Málaga.Stores or bars such as the London Pub, O'Hara's Irish Pub, Nordic Video, and Casa Nórdica, or organizations such as the Swedish Chur…
White migrations
This article examines Swedish migrant women to the United States. It asks how racially privileged European migrants adapt to US racial and gender hierarchies that require them to relinquish their economic security and gender autonomy in a neoliberal state? Drawing upon interviews and focus group discussions with 33 Swedish women and three of their spouses, and participant observation between 2006 and 2008 in a network for Swedish speaking women l…
White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families
The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon racial consciousness interviews and participant observation conducted as part of a longitudinal study of Black-White interracial families in England, this article presents the analysis of five black members of interracial families to show the fluid value of whiteness. An analysis of interviews w…
A White Side of Black Britain
Globalization and Incarceration
The future of whiteness
This article surveys the interdisciplinary field of whiteness studies and outlines an emerging 'third wave' of research in this international and interdisciplinary field. This article begins by locating the origins of whiteness studies in the work of W.E.B. DuBois, who provided the intellectual foundations for this body of scholarship. We then identify three characteristics that distinguish this 'third wave' of research from earlier studies. This…
Visual ethnography and racial theory
I propose a model for employing photograph-elicitation interviews in longitudinal ethnographic research on race and intimacy by drawing upon research that I conducted among British interracial families between 1995 and 2003. I evaluate my use of family photographs in photo-elicitation interviews as a methodological tool, a source of primary data and as evidence for theory. I used photo-interviews as a collaborative methodological tool to clarify …
The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness
How do White members of Black-White interracial families negotiate the meanings of race, and particularly Whiteness? Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois's concept of double consciousness, this article argues that interracial intimacy is a microlevel political site where White people can acquire a critical analytical lens that we conceptualize as racial literacy. This article fills a gap in the empirical and theoretical literature on race and Whiteness b…
A white side of black Britain
Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the assumption that white parents cannot understand race or racism and thus cannot properly prepare children of multiracial heritage to cope with racism. In this article I draw on a seven-year ethnographic study to offer an intensive case study of white transracial birth parents that counters this racial logic. I draw on a subset of data collected from f…
Feminism and Antiracism
Feminism and Antiracism
Daughters of Suburbia
Transgressive Women and Transracial Mothers
Research Article| March 01 2001 Transgressive Women and Transracial Mothers: White Women and Critical Race Theory France Winddance Twine France Winddance Twine france winddance twine is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her recent publications include Racing Research: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies (2000) and Feminisms and Antiracisms: International Struggles for Justice (2000). She…
Racing research, researching race
Feminist Fairy Tales for Black and American Indian Girls
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The future of whiteness
This article surveys the interdisciplinary field of whiteness studies and outlines an emerging 'third wave' of research in this international and interdisciplinary field. This article begins by locating the origins of whiteness studies in the work of W.E.B. DuBois, who provided the intellectual foundations for this body of scholarship. We then identify three characteristics that distinguish this 'third wave' of research from earlier studies. This…
A white side of black Britain
Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the assumption that white parents cannot understand race or racism and thus cannot properly prepare children of multiracial heritage to cope with racism. In this article I draw on a seven-year ethnographic study to offer an intensive case study of white transracial birth parents that counters this racial logic. I draw on a subset of data collected from f…
A White Side of Black Britain
Racism in a racial democracy
White Americans, the New Minority
We Hispanics are, finally, like other immigrant groups... Yes, the Hispanics are going to become more like the majority. Their families will be smaller, better educated, more traveled. Roots will be lost. Language will be lost. Food will be the last to go. We will be eating tacos and tortillas for a long time to come. (Cesar Chavez, cited in Morgan, 1985, pp. 79–80) The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro. (James Baldwin, cited…
Brown Skinned White Girls
Feminist scholars theorizing about whiteness and white identity have not examined the pivotal role that middle-class material privilege, residential segregation and US consumer culture play in the social construction of a racialized cultural identity among the African-descent daughters of Asian-American and European-American mothers. There is a dearth of empirical research by feminist scholars which interrogates the shifts in a racialized gender …
Gender-Fluid Geek Girls
How do technically-skilled women negotiate the male-dominated environments of technology firms? This article draws upon interviews with female programmers, technical writers, and engineers of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual orientations employed in the San Francisco tech industry. Using intersectional analysis, this study finds that racially dominant (white and Asian) women, who identified as LGBTQ and presented as gender-fluid, reported a …
The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness
How do White members of Black-White interracial families negotiate the meanings of race, and particularly Whiteness? Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois's concept of double consciousness, this article argues that interracial intimacy is a microlevel political site where White people can acquire a critical analytical lens that we conceptualize as racial literacy. This article fills a gap in the empirical and theoretical literature on race and Whiteness b…
Making and breaking families – reading queer reproductions, stratified reproduction and reproductive justice together
Visual ethnography and racial theory
I propose a model for employing photograph-elicitation interviews in longitudinal ethnographic research on race and intimacy by drawing upon research that I conducted among British interracial families between 1995 and 2003. I evaluate my use of family photographs in photo-elicitation interviews as a methodological tool, a source of primary data and as evidence for theory. I used photo-interviews as a collaborative methodological tool to clarify …
Bearing Blackness in Britain
Transracial Mothering and Antiracism
White migrations
This article examines Swedish migrant women to the United States. It asks how racially privileged European migrants adapt to US racial and gender hierarchies that require them to relinquish their economic security and gender autonomy in a neoliberal state? Drawing upon interviews and focus group discussions with 33 Swedish women and three of their spouses, and participant observation between 2006 and 2008 in a network for Swedish speaking women l…
White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families
The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon racial consciousness interviews and participant observation conducted as part of a longitudinal study of Black-White interracial families in England, this article presents the analysis of five black members of interracial families to show the fluid value of whiteness. An analysis of interviews w…
From wave to tsunami
Steve Garner has provided a through and far reaching critique on the extent to which a "Third Wave" perspective on whiteness has (or has not) lived up to the theoretical promises and epistemologica
Queer decisions
How does race and location shape the reproductive decisions of gay men who are intended parents? In this article, we propose the concept of strategic racialization to characterize the ways in which gay male parents employ racial matching in their selection of egg donors and surrogates in the United States and United Kingdom. We argue that racial matching is a strategy of stigma management. This study draws upon interview data from 40 gay male cou…
Visual Sociology in a Discipline of Words
This article analyzes the limitations of qualitative research methods that over-privilege textual analysis in North American sociology graduate programs. I argue that visual literacy, as a methodological tool, is neglected and marginalized in the graduate curriculum. Training in visual culture including the use of photography, film and video, can contribute to theoretically grounded empirical research on race and racism. A form of academic aparth…
Transgressive Women and Transracial Mothers
Research Article| March 01 2001 Transgressive Women and Transracial Mothers: White Women and Critical Race Theory France Winddance Twine France Winddance Twine france winddance twine is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her recent publications include Racing Research: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies (2000) and Feminisms and Antiracisms: International Struggles for Justice (2000). She…
Globalization and Incarceration
Debating Cultural Hybridity
Preface * Introduction: The Dialectics Of Cultural Hybridity * Pnina Werbner * Part One: Hybridity, Globalisation and the Practice of Cultural Complexity * 1. From Complex Culture To Cultural Complexity * Hans-Rudolf Wicker * 2. The Making And Unmaking Of Strangers * Zygmunt Bauman * 3. Identity And Difference In A Globalized World * Alberto Melucci * 4. Global Crises, The Struggle For Cultural Identity And Intellectual Porkbarrelling * Jonathan …
Antiracist Activism in Ecuador
L'A. a pour ambition de traiter les differents mouvements antiracistes en Amerique du Sud, en nous eclairant sur les tenants et les aboutissants, et plus precisement en Equateur. Leader d'un mouvement populaire, Pablo de la Torre tente de legitimer l'existence des communautes noires indiennes, face aux exemples de denegations de reconnaissance ethnique
The racial body is gendered
In The Racial Order, Emirbayer and Desmond offer a systematic theory of race. The social psychology of race is central to the theoretical framework of this book. In their discussion of bodily aesthetics, bodily cognition, and bodily morality, they neglect the important theoretical insights and empirical contributions of feminist sociologists who have studied the racialized and gendered body. The exclusion of the intersectional research of feminis…
Film reviews
The sphakia survey The Sphakia Survey. Producer: Educational Technology Resources Centre, University of Oxford; Directors: Lucia Nixon and Simon Price; Camera: Charles Beesley; Editing: Lucia Nixon, Simon Price and Charles Beesley. 1995. 50 minutes, color. Distributed by the Educational Technology Resources Centre, 37–41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, U.K. Tel: (01865) 270530; fax: 270527; sale: Umatic (state format) £35; VHS £35 (NTSC), £25 …
Mapping the terrain of Brazilian racism
L'A. porte son attention sur le racisme au Bresil. Il examine la notion de segregation sociale. Il s'efforce de mettre en lumiere les discriminations dont sont victimes les noirs sur le plan economique et social. Il montre que celles-ci se manifestent principalement, au Bresil, dans le domaine du mariage et de l'education. Il affirme que l'esthetique vehiculee par les medias tend a valoriser un certain ideal physique europeen
Brown Skinned White Girls
Feminist scholars theorizing about whiteness and white identity have not examined the pivotal role that middle-class material privilege, residential segregation and US consumer culture play in the social construction of a racialized cultural identity among the African-descent daughters of Asian-American and European-American mothers. There is a dearth of empirical research by feminist scholars which interrogates the shifts in a racialized gender …
Brown-Skinned White Girls
Film reviews
The sphakia survey The Sphakia Survey. Producer: Educational Technology Resources Centre, University of Oxford; Directors: Lucia Nixon and Simon Price; Camera: Charles Beesley; Editing: Lucia Nixon, Simon Price and Charles Beesley. 1995. 50 minutes, color. Distributed by the Educational Technology Resources Centre, 37–41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, U.K. Tel: (01865) 270530; fax: 270527; sale: Umatic (state format) £35; VHS £35 (NTSC), £25 …
White Americans, the New Minority
We Hispanics are, finally, like other immigrant groups... Yes, the Hispanics are going to become more like the majority. Their families will be smaller, better educated, more traveled. Roots will be lost. Language will be lost. Food will be the last to go. We will be eating tacos and tortillas for a long time to come. (Cesar Chavez, cited in Morgan, 1985, pp. 79–80) The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro. (James Baldwin, cited…
Mapping the terrain of Brazilian racism
L'A. porte son attention sur le racisme au Bresil. Il examine la notion de segregation sociale. Il s'efforce de mettre en lumiere les discriminations dont sont victimes les noirs sur le plan economique et social. Il montre que celles-ci se manifestent principalement, au Bresil, dans le domaine du mariage et de l'education. Il affirme que l'esthetique vehiculee par les medias tend a valoriser un certain ideal physique europeen
Racism in a racial democracy
Transracial Mothering and Antiracism
Bearing Blackness in Britain
Racing research, researching race
Feminist Fairy Tales for Black and American Indian Girls
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at
Debating Cultural Hybridity
Preface * Introduction: The Dialectics Of Cultural Hybridity * Pnina Werbner * Part One: Hybridity, Globalisation and the Practice of Cultural Complexity * 1. From Complex Culture To Cultural Complexity * Hans-Rudolf Wicker * 2. The Making And Unmaking Of Strangers * Zygmunt Bauman * 3. Identity And Difference In A Globalized World * Alberto Melucci * 4. Global Crises, The Struggle For Cultural Identity And Intellectual Porkbarrelling * Jonathan …
Antiracist Activism in Ecuador
L'A. a pour ambition de traiter les differents mouvements antiracistes en Amerique du Sud, en nous eclairant sur les tenants et les aboutissants, et plus precisement en Equateur. Leader d'un mouvement populaire, Pablo de la Torre tente de legitimer l'existence des communautes noires indiennes, face aux exemples de denegations de reconnaissance ethnique
Feminism and Antiracism
Daughters of Suburbia
Transgressive Women and Transracial Mothers
Research Article| March 01 2001 Transgressive Women and Transracial Mothers: White Women and Critical Race Theory France Winddance Twine France Winddance Twine france winddance twine is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her recent publications include Racing Research: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies (2000) and Feminisms and Antiracisms: International Struggles for Justice (2000). She…
Feminism and Antiracism
A white side of black Britain
Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the assumption that white parents cannot understand race or racism and thus cannot properly prepare children of multiracial heritage to cope with racism. In this article I draw on a seven-year ethnographic study to offer an intensive case study of white transracial birth parents that counters this racial logic. I draw on a subset of data collected from f…
Visual ethnography and racial theory
I propose a model for employing photograph-elicitation interviews in longitudinal ethnographic research on race and intimacy by drawing upon research that I conducted among British interracial families between 1995 and 2003. I evaluate my use of family photographs in photo-elicitation interviews as a methodological tool, a source of primary data and as evidence for theory. I used photo-interviews as a collaborative methodological tool to clarify …
The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness
How do White members of Black-White interracial families negotiate the meanings of race, and particularly Whiteness? Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois's concept of double consciousness, this article argues that interracial intimacy is a microlevel political site where White people can acquire a critical analytical lens that we conceptualize as racial literacy. This article fills a gap in the empirical and theoretical literature on race and Whiteness b…
Globalization and Incarceration
The future of whiteness
This article surveys the interdisciplinary field of whiteness studies and outlines an emerging 'third wave' of research in this international and interdisciplinary field. This article begins by locating the origins of whiteness studies in the work of W.E.B. DuBois, who provided the intellectual foundations for this body of scholarship. We then identify three characteristics that distinguish this 'third wave' of research from earlier studies. This…
White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families
The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon racial consciousness interviews and participant observation conducted as part of a longitudinal study of Black-White interracial families in England, this article presents the analysis of five black members of interracial families to show the fluid value of whiteness. An analysis of interviews w…
A White Side of Black Britain
White migrations
This article examines Swedish migrant women to the United States. It asks how racially privileged European migrants adapt to US racial and gender hierarchies that require them to relinquish their economic security and gender autonomy in a neoliberal state? Drawing upon interviews and focus group discussions with 33 Swedish women and three of their spouses, and participant observation between 2006 and 2008 in a network for Swedish speaking women l…
Geographies of Privilege
Southern Spain is one of the most attractive places in Europe for so-called lifestyle migrants to live and retire.Most of them come to the Spanish Sunbelt from Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries.The presence of Northern European migration is striking in the coastal towns of Fuengirola, Marbella, and Málaga.Stores or bars such as the London Pub, O'Hara's Irish Pub, Nordic Video, and Casa Nórdica, or organizations such as the Swedish Chur…
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