Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology

Contact Info:

Office Location:	259 Social Sciences
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5607
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2017):

• SOCIOL 215.01, SOCIOLOGY OF RACISM IN AMERICA Synopsis

  Allen 326, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 246.01, LSGS 316.01)

• SOCIOL 765S.01, PROSEM: SOCIAL STRAT (TOP) Synopsis

  Soc/Psych 329, M 06:15 PM-08:45 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Wisconsin at Madison	1993
M.A.	University of Wisconsin at Madison	1987
B.A.	University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)	1984

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  

• 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. Bonilla-Silva, E, The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America, American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 59 no. 11 (October, Accepted, 2015), pp. 1358-1376 [doi]
2. Bonilla-Silva, E; Brookshire Childers, T, The pitfalls and possibilities of prophetic race theory: Cultivating leadership: Race matters in “postracial” Obamerica and how to climb out of the Rabbit Hole, in Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age (January, 2014), pp. 22-48, ISBN 9781438450872
3. Bonilla-Silva, E; Ray, VE, Getting over the obama hope hangover: The new racism in ‘post-racial’ America, in Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives (January, 2014), pp. 57-73, ISBN 9781139015431 [doi]  [abs]
4. Golash-Boza, T; Bonilla-Silva, E, Rethinking race, racism, identity and ideology in Latin America, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 36 no. 10 (October, Accepted, 2013), pp. 1485-1489 [doi]  [abs]
5. Bonilla-Silva, E, Racism without Racists (4th Edition) (July, 2013), pp. 384 pages, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 1442220562  [abs]