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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Contact Info:
Office Location:  259 Sochttp://clacs.aas.duke.edu/people/faculty.php/Psych
Office Phone:  (919) 660-5607
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • SOCIOL 10.01, SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY Synopsis
    Soc/Psych 127, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • SOCIOL 116.01, COMP RACE/ETHNIC STUDIES Synopsis
    Social Sciences 119, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
Research Interests:

Currently I am working on two books entitled, Anything but Racism: How Social Analysts Limit the Significance of Race (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Hayward Horton) and White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology (with Tukufu Zuberi). I am also working on a project entitled, "We are All Americans! The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the USA," where I explore the changing dynamics of racial stratification in the United States.

Areas of Interest:

Racial Stratification and
Race Relations

Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Inseo Son  
  • Elizabeth Freeman  
  • Sarah Mayorga  
  • David Dietrich  
  • Victor Ray  
  • Michelle Christian  
  • Serena Sebring  
  • Rose Buckelow  
Postdocs Mentored

  • John Eason (2008/01-present)  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. (FORTHCOMING) (with Victor Ray) “It’s REAL! Racism, Color-Blindness, Obama, and the Urgent Need for Social Movement.”, in In edited book by David Fasenfest (Wayne State University). (2010)
  2. Racism without Racists (Third edition) (2010)
  3. “The Latin Americanization of US Race Relations: A New Pigmentocracy, in Shades of Difference, edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn (2009), Stanford University Press
  4. “Si me permiten hablar: Limitations of the Human Rights Tradition to Address Racial Inequality,”, Societies Without Borders, vol. 4 (Accepted, 2009), pp. 366-382  [abs]
  5. “Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A Reply to Christina A. Sue., Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 32 no. 6 (Accepted, 2009), pp. 1971-1082 (This was an exchange with a critic of my work on the idea that racial stratification in the USA is becoming latin american-like. The work was profiled by the journal and is receiving lots of attention..)


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