France Winddance Twine

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France Winddance Twine is an American sociologist, feminist theorist and ethnographer who has conducted extensive field research in Brazil, Britain and the United States. Twine's research is concerned with the intersections of racial, gender and class inequalities as an interlocking system.

Twine was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in a working class family. She is the granddaughter of Paul Twine, Sr., a Civil Rights Activist who was a co-founder of the Catholic Interracial Council, and marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.

Twine earned her B.A. degree at the age of 20 from Northwestern University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

She is professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara and has published in Brazilian Portuguese and English journals. 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 flagship 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 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

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.

Her book Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil is a standard text in many classes analyzing race and racism in that country [1]. And the volume Racing Research, Researching Race frequently appears as required reading in classes and seminars on race [2]. All of her books remain in print.

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

Contents

[edit] Academic positions held

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books and Edited Volumes

  • Forthcoming A White Side of Black Europe. Duke University Press.
  • In Press “Whiteness and White Identities”, a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Coedited with Charles Gallagher.
  • 2001 Feminism and Anti-racism: International Struggles for Justice. New York University Press. Co-edited with Kathleen Blee.
  • 2000b Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality & Nationalism. New York/London: Routledge. Co-edited with Helena Ragoné.
  • 2000a Racing Research/Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies. New York University Press. Co-edited with Jonathan Warren.

“Feminisms and Youth Cultures” a special issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol. 23, no.3 (Spring 1998). University of Chicago Press. Co-edited with Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Kathryn Kent.

  • 1997 Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil, New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press. (currently in its fifth printing)

[edit] Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

  • “The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy” . Co-authored with Amy Steinbugler. (DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race) In Press
  • “Rethinking the Costs of Blackness and the Value of Whiteness “ Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies, vol. 1, no.2. 2006
  • 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.
  • 2004 “A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy, Ethnic and Racial Studies, (a special issue on racial hierarchy), vol. 27, no. 6 (November 2004): 1-30.
  • 2003 “Racial Literacy in Britain: Antiracist Projects, Black Children, White Parents”, Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora, vol.1, no.2 (Fall 2003): 129-153.
  • 2001 "Transgressive Women, Transracial Mothers: White Women and Critical Race Theory", Meridians: race, feminism, transnationalism. Vol. 1, no. 2 (March):130-153.
  • 2000b “Antiracist Activism in Ecuador: Black-Indian Alliances," Race and Class vol.42, no.2 (October-December): 19-31. Co-authored with Adam Halpern.
  • 2000a "Feminist Fairy Tales for Black and American Indian Girls: A Working Class Vision", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 25, no.4 (Summer):1227-1230.
  • 1999b “Transracial Mothering and Anti-racism: The case of white mothers of ‘Black’ children in Britain”, Feminist Studies, vol. 25 (Fall 1999): 729-46.
  • 1999a "Bearing Blackness in Britain: The meaning of racial difference for white birth mothers of African-descent children", Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. Vol. 5, no.2 (June 1999): 185-210.
  • 1998 Introduction. “Feminisms and Youth Cultures,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Volume 23, no.3 (Spring 1998).
  • 1997 "White Americans, the New Minority?: Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness”, Journal of Black Studies, Vol.28 (2): 200-218. Co-authored with Jonathan Warren.
  • 1997 “Mapping the Terrain of Brazilian Racism,” Race & Class, Vol. 38(2): 49-62.
  • 1996b "Brown Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities", Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Vol.3, no.2 (July 1996): 205-224.
  • 1996a "O hiato de genero nas percepçoes de racismo: o caso dos afro-brasileiros socialments ascendentes, Estudos Afro-Asiaticos." Vol. 29 (March 1996): 37-54.

[edit] Other Articles

  • "Acting Locally and Globally: An Interview with Steve Zeltzer": Television that works: Labor Video in the 1990s", in "Media as Activism" a special issue of Socialist Review. Vol. 23, no.2:65-69.

[edit] Book Chapters

  • Forthcoming Hair, Hygiene and Home Cooking: The Cultural Production of Blackness in Multiracial Families”, in Cloning Cultures, edited by Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg. Duke University Press.
  • 2006 Racial Logics and Trans (racial) Identities: A view from Britain, in Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era, edited by David Brunsma. Lynne Riener publishers.
  • 2004 White Antiracism in Multiracial Families”, in Off-White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance. Edited by Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell Pruitt and April Burns. Routledge.
  • 2001 “Critical Race Studies in Latin American Studies: Recent Advances, Recurrent Weaknesses”, In David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, pp.1-34. Co-authored with Jonathan Warren
  • 2001 "Feminist Antiracist Maps: transnational contours", in Feminisms and Antiracisms: International Struggles for Justice, edited by France Winddance Twine and Kathleen Blee. New York University Press. Co-authored with Kathleen Blee.
  • 2000b "Motherhood on the Fault lines", In Heléna Ragoné and France Winddance Twine (eds.) Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality and Nationalism. Routledge. Co-authored with Heléna Ragoné.
  • 2000a "Racial Ideologies, Racial Methodologies and Racial Fields," In France Winddance Twine and Jonathan Warren (eds.) Racing Research/Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies. New York University Press, pp. 1-35. 1999 "Interracial Teaching Teams, Anti-racism and the Politics of White Resistance at a Predominantly White Research University. In Teaching Introduction to Women Studies: Student Expectations and Classroom Strategies, edited by Barbara Scott Winkler and Carolyn DiPalma. Co-authored with Audre Brokes.
  • 1998 Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain. In Judith Howard and Jodi O’Brien (eds.), Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries, Basil Blackwell: London.
  • 1995 "Heterosexual Alliances: The Romantic Management of Racial Identity." in Maria P. Root, ed., The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier, Sage Publications, pp.291-304.

[edit] Film/Video Productions

  • 1991 Just Black?: Multiracial Identity in the U.S., (w/J. Warren and F. Ferrandiz), New York, NY: Filmakers, Library, [3]

This documentary is based on independent (unfunded) research conducted in 1990. The core of this film consists of interviews with nine individuals from multiracial families which include one U.S. Black parent and a second non-Black parent (Japanese, Korean, German, Mexican, Anglo-American and Euro-American Jewish parent). It examines the cultural production and enforcement of racial boundaries and racial ideologies in the contemporary United States. It also examines strategies used to assert and negotiate a racial identity when one's physical appearance does not correspond to the ascribed racial position in the United States.

[edit] Research grants and awards

Residential Fellowship at the Bellagio Conference Center Lake Como, Italy

Postdoctoral Fellow for the Sawyer Seminar The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “The Concept and Consequences of Race: Cross-National and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives.

  • 1996-97 Royalty Research Fund Scholar

“Transracial Motherhood: White Birth Mothers of Racial Others in Britain

  • 1996 Emerging Scholar Special Commendation

American Association of University Women

  • 1994-95 Faculty Research Assistance Grant

Boeing Endowment for Excellence

  • 1993-94 Minority Scholar-in-Residence Dissertation Fellowship

National Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges

  • 1993 Special Award

American Psychological Association (awarded to the film Just Black?)

  • 1992 Honorable Mention

American Film and Video Festival (Awarded to the film Just Black?)

  • 1992 Special Jury Award

National Educational Film and Video Festival (Awarded to the film "Just Black?")

  • 1991-92 Graduate Research Award

Dean of the Graduate Division University of California at Berkeley

  • 1991 Robert H. Lowie Summer Research Award

Department of Anthropology University of California at Berkeley

  • 1989-90 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Academic Senate of the Graduate Division University of California at Berkeley

[edit] Presentations and professional activities

  • 2006 Invited Speaker, “Racism and Anti-Racism in Multiracial Families”, Illinois Humanities Council, The Public Square series of “Conversations that Matter”, West Englewood branch of the Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois, 9 December.
  • 2006 Invited Lecture, “Veils and Visions: Negotiating Intimacy in Racial Fields”, Gender Working Group, Sociology Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, October 27.
  • 2006 Referred Session, “Status, Stigma, and the Social Value of Whiteness: Same Sex and Heterosexual Interracial Intimacy”, Refereed Session on Micro-sociologies, Annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, co-presented with A.Steinbugler, 12 August, Montreal, Canada.
  • 2006 Organizer, Invited Thematic session titled “The State of Intersectionality in Feminist Research: Race, Class, Sexuality & Nationality”, 101rst Annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, 11 August.
  • 2006 Invited Session, “When Black is a Country: Negotiating Nationality, Sexuality & Class in Transnational Field Research”, Session titled Research Across the Color Line: Methodological Questions, Organized by Barbara Katz Rothman, Annual Meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists, Montreal, Canada, 10 August.
  • 2006 Invited Panelist, “Transracial Marriages, Ethnic Monitoring and Racial Abuse in State Schools”, Session organized by Anna Marie Smith, Annual Meetings of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 15-18 March.
  • 2006 Invited Speaker, “Rethinking the Meaning of Welfare: Some Lessons from Transracial Parents”, A Mellon Foundation Conference titled “States of Welfare”, The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, 10-11 March.
  • 2006 Invited Speaker, “Transracial Assets: Being and Becoming Racially Literate”, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 10 February.
  • 2005 Invited Speaker and Organizer, “Class/Race/Globalization’, Conference titled “Twenty-First Century Motherhood: Changing Definitions and Experience”, Women Studies Program, University of Houston, Texas, 20-23 October.
  • 2005 Invited Paper, “Visual Ethnography and Interracial Families: photo-elicitation interviews as a methodological tool”, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, 19 September, Vancouver, Canada.
  • 2005 Invited Paper, “Brown Dolls, Black Sisters, Braids and Other Battlegrounds: the struggle over race and respectability in interracial families”, Session titled The Public and Private Faces of Interracial Intimacies”, Annual Meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 13 August.
  • 2005 Invited Paper, “Veils and Visions: second-hand racism and white anti-racism”, Session titled Critical Reflections on the Problem of the 21rst Century: The Color-Blind Line”, organized by David Brunsma, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 August.
  • 2005 Co-Organizer, The Public and Private Faces of Interracial Intimacies, Annual meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10-13 August.
  • 2005 Invited Speaker, “Hair, Hygiene and Habitus: the achievement of respectability and ‘racial resemblance” through idealized consumption” Conference titled Cloning Cultures: Normativities, Homogeneities, and the Human in Question, Organized by Piya Chatterjee , Philomena Essed, & David Theo Goldberg, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California Humanities Institute, Irvine, California, 13-14 May.
  • 2005 Keynote Speaker, “Shopping for Blackness: white women in interracial families in England”, Conference titled “Consuming Women”, Women Studies Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 17-19.
  • 2004 Invited Speaker, “Racial Logics and Gendered Labor”, Feminist Studies Seminar, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, 8 November.
  • 2004 Invited Speaker, A White Side of Black Europe”, Conference for the Comparative Study of Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity, Cornell University, 14-17 October.
  • 2004 Invited Critic, Author Meets Critics Session, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life by Annette Laureau (University of California Press), 99th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 15 August.
  • 2004 Organizer and Presider, Thematic session titled “Transnational Women’s Movements”, 99th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, 14 August.
  • 2004 Invited Panelist, Oxford Round Table on “Human Rights and Gender Discrimination”, Lincoln College at Oxford University, England, 28 March- 2 April.
  • 2004 Invited Speaker, ‘Politics and Ethnography’, Writing Race: Ethnography and Difference Workshop, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, 13 March.
  • 2004 Invited Speaker, ‘Race and Public Policy: The Multiracial Box on the 2000 Census’, Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 21 February.
  • 2003 Invited Lecture, “Mapping Racial Formation in Black Britain”, Session titled “Global Encounters and Accounts”, Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries’, University of Pennsylvania, The American Academy of Political and Social Scientists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6-8 November.
  • 2003 Invited Participant, Second Generation Immigrants in Europe and North America, Rockefeller Foundation conference organized by Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf and Mary Waters. Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, June
  • 2003 Invited Lecture, ”Antiracism in Action: Mapping Racial Literacy in Multiracial Families”, Department of African and African-American Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 14 April.
  • 2003 Invited Lecture, Global Futures Symposia, “The White Side of Black Britain: Racial Formation and Racial Literacy in Europe”, Rutgers University, Livingston Campus, 10 April.
  • 2002 Invited Lecture, “Bearing Blackness and Whiteness in Britain”, Ph.D Program in Sociology, Brown Bag Colloquium, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 6 November.
  • 2002 Presider, “Narrative and Content Analysis in Sociological Inquiry”, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, 16 August.
  • 2002 Invited Lecture, Session titled “Gendered Subjectivities, Race and Internalized Oppression”, conference in Honor of Sandra Bartky, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 15 February.
  • 2001 Invited Lecture, “Ethnographies of Consciousness: Theorizing Antiracism”, Cultural Studies Colloquium, London South Bank University, London, 29 October.
  • 2001 Invited Lecture, Remaking Black Europe: New Feminist Cartographies of Race, Gender and Nation. Feminist Studies Research Unit, University of California, Santa Cruz. 19-20 October.
  • 2001 Invited Panelist, “Memory as a Transnational Political Resource in the Black Americas,” on the session Memorializing Civil Rights Movement, Freedom Struggles in the Atlantic World Conference, Co-sponsored by Cambridge University and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 5-7 April, 2001.
  • 2001 Invited Lecture, “Transgressive Women, Transracial Mothers: White Women and Critical Race Theory,” Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia, February 7.
  • 2001 Invited Lecture, “Racial Literacy and Racial Abuse: White Women and the Black British Experience”, Department of Sociology, Duke University, 10 January.
  • 2000 Organizer, Feminist and Antiracist Studies Colloquium Series, Sociology Department, October – December, University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • 2000 Invited Lecture, “The space between racial literacy and racial consciousness: barriers to antiracist alliances in Britain”, Department of Sociology, Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 26 April.
  • 2000 Invited Lecture, "Antiracist imperatives, research strategies and public policy", Mellon-Sawyer Seminar, Center for International Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 29 March.
  • 2000I nvited Lecture, "Racial Abuse and Racial Literacy in Britain", The Program for Comparative American Cultures, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 15 March.
  • 2000 Invited Lecture, “Antiracism and Theoretical Trajectories in Latin American Studies", African and African-American Studies Program, Duke University, Durham, 9 March.
  • 2000 Invited Lecture, “Racial Logics, Racial Literacy and Counter-Racism in British Multiracial Families, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 27 January.
  • 1999 Co-organizer, "Is Time Running Out for Affirmative Action?," Invited Public Policy Session, 98th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois. 20 November.
  • 1999 Refereed Session, "Transatlantic anti-racisms in practice: a cultural analysis of white parents of African-descent children in Britain," presented on a regular session organized by Becky Thompson for the Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, 29 October.
  • 1999 Invited Lecture, “Aesthetics, Anti-racism and Racial Literacy: The Case of Black Britain”, Andrew Mellon - Sawyer Seminar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 20 October.
  • 1999 Refereed Session, “The Paradox of Transracial Motherhood: The meaning of racism and racial empathy in British Multiracial Families,” Presented on “Race, Ideologies and Kinship”, a regular session organized by Anita Garey and Karen Hansen for 94th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, 6-10 August.
  • 1999 Organizer, "Racisms in the U.S. and Abroad", Regular Session", 94th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, 6- 10 August, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 1999 Invited Lecture, "Racial Logics and Racial Reproduction: The Calculus of White Bodies and Black Britishness", Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 30 April.
  • 1999 Invited Lecture, “Transgressive Women, Transracial Mothers: Reproducing Racial Difference,” Dean’s Lecture Series, St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 April.
  • 1999 Invited Lecture, “Is Transracial Motherhood Transformative?: racial consciousness among white mothers of African-descent children," Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 18 February.
  • 1998 Invited Session, "Transracial Motherhood under White Supremacy: White Mothers and the Reproduction of Black Subjectivities in British Multiethnic Households," Sponsored by the Association for Feminist Anthropology, 97th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 December.
  • 1998 Invited Discussant, "Different Differences: Race, Nation and Identity in Recent Books by Black Anthropologists," Association of Black Anthropologists, Organized by Carolyn Martin Shaw and Trevor Purcell, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 2-6 December, 1998.
  • 1998 Invited Lecture, “The Racial Literacy of Afro-Brazilians: A Gendered Analysis”, Women Studies Speakers Series, Co-sponsored by the Brazilian Studies Program and the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 19 November.
  • 1998 Invited Lecture, “The Paradox of Transracial Motherhood: White Moms, Black Children and the Meaning of Racial Empathy." Race & Ethnicity Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 5 November.
  • 1998 Referred Session, "White Moms, Black Children, and White Supremacy in Multiracial Families," Presented at the conference Making History, Constructing ‘Race’: Situating ‘Race’ in Time, Space and Theory, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 23-25 October.
  • 1998 Invited Lecture, "Bearing Blackness: White Mothers and the Production of Black Subjectivities in Britain", Colloquium Speakers Series, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 18 May.
  • 1998 Invited Lecture, "Bearing Blackness: White Mothers and the Production of Black Subjectivities in Britain," Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 27 April.
  • 1998 Invited Lecture, "Closing the Theoretical Gap: The Case for Comparative Feminist Studies," Presented at the conference Feminism's Race Question, Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies at University of California at Los Angeles, 6-7 March.
  • 1998 Invited Lecture, "Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: A Cross-National Perspective," Graduate Colloquium, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 3 March.
  • 1998 Invited Lecture, “White Mothers and the Production of Black British

Subjectivities”, Graduate Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27 February.

  • 1998 Invited Lecture, “Mothering Against the Script: The Meaning of Anti-Racist Parenting among British Mothers of African-Descent Children,” Colloquium Series, Center for *1998 Black Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 12 February.
  • 1997 Co-Organizer. "The Poetics and Politics of Black Feminist Anthropology". Invited by the Association for Feminist Anthropology and the Association of Black Anthropologists). 96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Co-organized Irma McClaurin, Washington, D.C., 21 November.
  • 1997 Invited Thematic Session. “Brazil: The State of White Supremacy”. Session entitled Race, Ethnicity and the State. Organized by Kathleen Blee. 92nd Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, 9-13 August.
  • 1997 Refereed Session. “Anti-Racism and the Burden of Whiteness: An Analysis of White Mothers of ‘Black’ Children in Britain.” Presented on the session titled Pushing the Boundaries: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender, Organized by Patricia Hill Collins, 92nd Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, August.
  • 1997 Invited Lecture, “Doing the Right Thing”: A Feminist Analysis of Representations of Black Women in Spike Lee films”, John Moores University, Liverpool, England, Department of Video and Media Studies, 23 April.
  • 1997 Invited Lecture, “Managing Racism: A Class Analysis of Transracial Mothers in Britain”, Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, 24 February.
  • 1997 Invited Lecture, “Anti-Racism and the Burden of Whiteness: A Comparative Analysis of Working Class and Middle-Class British Transracial Mothers,” Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 14 February.
  • 1997 Invited Panelist, Session entitled “Feminist Theory: Voice and Vision”, Engaging Feminisms, Annual Conference of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. 7 February.
  • 1996 Co-Organizer and Chair, Co-Invited Session (Association for Feminist Anthropology and Association of Black Anthropologists),"Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Religion and Nationalism", (w/ Helena Ragone), 95th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 20-24 November.
  • 1996 Presenter, “Bearing Blackness: White Birth Mothers of African-descent Children in Britain”, 95th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 20-24 November.
  • 1996 Mapping the Ideological Terrain of Brazilian Racism: The Sexual, Social and Semiotic Contours,” Latin American Studies Program, University of Washington, 9 October.
  • 1996 Invited Lecture, “Negotiating Shifts in Racial Identities through Romantic Alliances,” Annual Meetings of the Washington State Psychological Association, Seattle, Washington, 20 April.
  • 1996 “The Meaning of Whiteness in British Multiracial Families: Some Notes on the Limits of Racial Neutrality”, Department of Geography, Graduate Colloquium, University of Washington, 29 March.
  • 1996Organizer & Presenter, "Transnational Transgressions: Reflections on Race, Gender and Nationality by a U.S. Black Feminist Studying White Consciousness in Britain", Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington, 21 March.
  • 1996 Invited Lecture, "Discourses in Defense of the Racial Democracy: The Management of Everyday Racism in Brazil," Department of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 9 January.
  • 1995 Invited Lecture, "Mapping Definitions of Brazilian Racism: The Sexual, Social and Spatial Contours", Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 15 December.
  • 1995 Co-Organizer and Presenter, "Towards an Engendered Analysis of Encounters with Racism: The Case of Upwardly Mobile Afro-Brazilians", Session entitled "Rethinking Race, Class and Sexuality in Contemporary Brazil,” 94th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 15-19 November.
  • 1995 Invited Panelist, “Who’s Diverse: The Politics of Definition.” Transforming the Curriculum: Incorporating Race and Gender. Co-sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the University of Washington. Seattle, Washington, 2-5 November
  • 1995 Refereed Session, "Brown Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities,” Presented on session titled The Politics of Culture: Race, Ethnicity, Domination and Resistance. (Co-sponsored by the Sections on Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Sociology of Culture), 90th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., 22 August.
  • 1995 Invited Lecture, "The Future of Racism and Anti-Racism in Rural Brazil", Institute for the Study of Social Change, Berkeley, California, 27 April.
  • 1995 Invited Session, “Brazilian Nationalism and the Limits of Pan-African Thought”, Annual Meetings of the British Sociological Association, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, 10 -13 April.
  • 1995 Invited Panelist, “Art as a Challenge to Homophobic Representations of the Family: A Response to Kathy Ross's Apple Pie exhibit,” Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, 7 February.
  • 1995 Invited Lecture, "Engendering Perceptions of Racism in Brazil: The Case of Upwardly Mobile Afro-Brazilians", Department of Anthropology and Women Studies Program, University of California at Los Angeles, 25 January.
  • 1995 Presenter, "The Dialectic between Identity and Scholarship," Women of Color in Academia Speaker Series, Northwest Center for Research on Women, University of Washington, 5 January.
  • 1995 Discussant, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Politics of Becoming an Anthropologist," sponsored by the Association of Black Anthropologists. 93rd Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 4 December.
  • 1994 Invited Lecture, "Racism & Romance: Interracial Marriage & the Maintenance of White Hegemony in Brazil", Graduate Colloquium in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington, 7 November.
  • 1994 Invited Lecture, "The Gender Gap in Perceptions of Racism in Brazil"

University of Colorado at Boulder, Women Studies Program, 8 March.

  • 1994 Invited Lecture, "Acquiring a Black Identity: College and the Cultural Retraining of African Descent Women," University of Washington, Women Studies, Seattle,Washington, 24 February.
  • 1993 Speaker, "Can't We All Just Get Along?: Managing Social Relationships in Schools," (w/Professor Pedro Noguera), Social and Cultural Studies Forum, University of California at Berkeley, 18 March.
  • 1993 Speaker, "Title: Being & Becoming Monoracial in a Multiracial Family." Annual Meetings of the National Association for Ethnic Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 5 March.
  • 1992 Speaker, "Locating Blackness in Brazil," Brazilian Action Solidarity Network, La Pena Cultural Center Oakland, California, 11 November.

[edit] Other professional activities

  • 2005 Committee Member and Reviewer, Joe Feagin Distinguished Undergraduate Paper Award, Association of Black Sociologists.
  • 2004 Organizer, Invited Thematic Session, 98th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, “Transnational Women’s Movements”, San Francisco, California.

2000 Area Scholars Workshop, Winter Forum for the Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellows, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 25 February.

  • 1998-99 Chair and Organizer, Colloquium for the Study of Race & Ethnicity. Theme "Gender, Racism and Nationalism", Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
  • 1996 Invited Panelist, “Cultural Identity and Systems of Oppression,” University of Washington, Co-sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, 22 May.
  • 1996 Invited Panelist, “Getting the First Job”, Transitions for Women in Academia, Northwest Center for Research on Women, University of Washington, 17 May.

[edit] Professional offices and editorial positions

[edit] External links

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