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

Please note: Eduardo has left the "African & African American 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:
Web Page:	http://www.aas.duke.edu/aaas/~silva

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Wisconsin, Madison	1993
M.A.	University of Wisconsin, Madison	1987
B.A.	University of 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

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; Kwesi, J; McFalls, E; Razon, RL; Thursland, A; Peoples, CE; Daily, SB; Washington, AN; Bonilla-Silva, E; Prefontaine, BE, Work in Progress: The Role of Student Backgrounds in Understanding Racial Disparities in Computing, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (June, 2024)
2. 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)
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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]