High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! France Winddance Twine (born in Chicago, Illinois) is Professor of Sociology and filmmaker at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the former Deputy Editor of American Sociological Review, the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association. Twine currently serves as a member of the International editorial boards of Sociology, the official journal of the British Sociological Association and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Twine`s research examines the intersections of racial, gender and class inequalities. Her recent work has focused on interracial families.