France Winddance Twine | |
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 France Winddance Twine in 2022 | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Nationality | Muscogee Nation, American |
| Alma mater | St. Thomas Aquinas Dominican H.S. Northwestern University University of California Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | Sociologist, filmmaker |
| Known for | Racial literacy, geek capital, photo elicitation interviews visual sociology; critical race theory; whiteness studies; racial, gender and class inequalities; interracial families |
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| Institutions | Duke University Stanford University University of California, Berkeley University of Washington University of California, Santa Barbara London School of Economics |
France Winddance Twine is a Black and Native American sociologist, ethnographer, visual artist, and 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 gender and sexuality, racism/anti-racism, 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).