{"id":57718,"date":"2019-02-26T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57718"},"modified":"2019-03-03T17:25:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:25:19","slug":"france-winddance-twine-digging-up-the-past-race-class-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57718","title":{"rendered":"France Winddance Twine | Digging Up the Past: Race &#038; Class in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HVjLQpPHbmw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>France Winddance Twine | Digging Up the Past: Race &amp; Class in Brazil<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fhi.duke.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duke Franklin Humanities Institute<\/a><br \/>\nDuke University, Durham, North Carolina<br \/>\n2019-02-11<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HVjLQpPHbmw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fhi.duke.edu\/labs\/slavery-freedom-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The From Slavery to Freedom Lab<\/a> welcomed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/france-winddance-twine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France Winddance Twine<\/a> on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of her book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil<\/a>.\u201d Dr. Twine reflected on intersectionality and racial, gender, and class politics in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a> and the future of Brazilian Studies.<\/p>\n<p>France Winddance Twine is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an ethnographer, a feminist race theorist, and a documentary filmmaker, whose research focuses on multiple dimensions of inequality. Twine\u2019s research provides case studies for a nuanced analysis of the intersections of race, class, sexuality and gender inequality. Twine has conducted extensive field research on both sides of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlantic<\/a> including: Brazil, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>. She is the author and editor of ten books including: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil<\/em><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy<\/em><\/a>; <em>Geographies of Privilege<\/em>; <em>Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy in the Global Market<\/em>; and <em>Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism and Militarism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hope_Franklin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Hope Franklin\u2019s<\/a> path-breaking 1947 study, the \u201cFrom Slavery to Freedom\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/fhi.duke.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Franklin Humanities Lab<\/a> seeks to examine the life and afterlives of slavery and emancipation, linking Duke University to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global South<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The From Slavery to Freedom Lab welcomed France Winddance Twine on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of her book, \u201cRacism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil.\u201d Dr. Twine reflected on intersectionality and racial, gender, and class politics in Brazil and the future of Brazilian Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,21,459,8,394,842],"tags":[29602,4711,1184,29572],"class_list":["post-57718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-videos","tag-duke-franklin-humanities-institute","tag-duke-university","tag-france-winddance-twine","tag-from-slavery-to-freedom-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57719,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57718\/revisions\/57719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}