Publications [#318890] of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Papers Accepted

1. Bonilla-Silva, E, Racial attitudes or racial ideology? An alternative paradigm for examining actors' racial views, Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 8 no. 1 (February, 2003), pp. 63-82, Informa UK Limited [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/14)

   Abstract:
   Most analysts of racism in the United States rely on surveys to make sense of actors' racial views and are oriented by methodological individualism. In contrast, a minority of scholars study actors' views as part of a racial ideology expressing their collective group interests. Nevertheless, these latter analysts have not developed a conceptual apparatus that can guide other researchers. My task in this article then is advancing a formal conceptualization of racial ideology and operationalizing it to facilitate using it in research. Using data from the 1998 Detroit Area Study, I illustrate the elements of this paradigm. In the explication of the various components of this paradigm, I discuss the central features of contemporary racial ideology in the Unites States which I label 'colour blind racism'. I conclude with a short discussion of the implications of this paradigm and of colour blind racism.