Research Interests for Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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).

Keywords:

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

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

Areas of Interest:

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

Recent 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]