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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Please note: Eduardo has left the "Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

I am trained in class analysis, political sociology, and sociology of development (globalization). However, my work in the last 20 years has been in the area of race. I have published on racial theory, race and methodology, color-blind racism, the idea that race stratification in the USA is becoming Latin America-like, racial grammar, HWCUs, race and human rights, race and citizenship, whiteness, and the Obama phenomenon among other things. In all my work, I contend that racism is fundamentally about "racial domination," hence, racism is a collective and structural phenomenon in society (see my 1997 ASR on this matter).

Contact Info:
Office Location:  Sociology, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 660-5607
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/~silva

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • SOCIOL 765S.01, PROSEM: SOCIAL STRAT (TOP) Synopsis
    Reuben-Coo 329, Tu 01:25 PM-03:55 PM
Education:

Ph.D.University of Wisconsin, Madison1993
M.A.University of Wisconsin, Madison1987
B.A.University of Puerto Rico1984
Research Interests:

Current projects: 4th Edition of RACISM WITHOUT RACISTS (Summer 2013, working on paper for inaugural issue of new SREM journal, working with Professor Kimberly Crenshaw (UCLA and Columbia Law Schools) on projects on race and utopia, working on paper for conference on structural racism tentatively titled “More than Prejudice: Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions , in the Racialized Social System Approach to Racism," and reparing work on race in the academy

I am trained in class analysis, political sociology, and sociology of development (globalization). However, my work in the last 20 years has been in the area of race. I have published on racial theory, race and methodology, color-blind racism, the idea that race stratification in the USA is becoming Latin America-like, racial grammar, HWCUs, race and human rights, race and citizenship, whiteness, and the Obama phenomenon among other things. In all my work, I contend that racism is fundamentally about "racial domination," hence, racism is a collective and structural phenomenon in society (see my 1997 ASR on this matter).

Areas of Interest:

Racial Stratification,
Social Theory,
Critical Race Methods,
Political Sociology, Latinos,
Latin America and the Caribbean,
and Epistemology

Keywords:

Human Rights • Ideology • Latin America • Methodology • Muser Mentor • Phenotype • Political science • Puerto Rico • Race • Racism

Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Reece, Robert  
  • Arriaga, Felicia  
  • Louise Seamster  
  • TRENITA CHILDERS  
  • AUSTIN ASHE  
  • Inseo Son  
  • Victor Ray  
  • Rose Buckelow  
Postdocs Mentored

  • John Eason (2008-2010)  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Fairfax, FG; McFalls, E; Rogers, A; Kwesi, J; Washington, AN; Daily, SB; Peoples, CE; Xiao, H; Bonilla-Silva, E, Work In Progress: A Novel Approach to Understanding Perceptions of Race among Computing Undergraduates, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (June, 2023)
  2. Bonilla-Silva, E, It's not the rotten apples! Why family scholars should adopt a structural perspective on racism, Journal of Family Theory and Review, vol. 15 no. 2 (June, Accepted, 2023), pp. 192-205 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Robertson, AD; Vélez, V; Hairston, WT; Bonilla-Silva, E, Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study, Physical Review Physics Education Research, vol. 19 no. 1 (January, Accepted, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
  4. Bonilla-Silva, E; Peoples, CE, Historically White Colleges and Universities: The Unbearable Whiteness of (Most) Colleges and Universities in America, American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 66 no. 11 (October, Accepted, 2022), pp. 1490-1504 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Bonilla-Silva, E, Color-Blind Racism in Pandemic Times, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, vol. 8 no. 3 (July, Accepted, 2022), pp. 343-354, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs]


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