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  • A course originally called ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ returns to Arizona State

    A course originally called ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ returns to Arizona State The Washington Post 2015-11-12 Yanan Wang Freedom of speech. Racial inequality. Student activism. Safe spaces. These are the phrases that have been lobbied about over the past week, in tones both fervent and contemptuous, as University of Missouri students successfully campaigned for the…

  • The Sweet (and Sour) Enchantment of Racism in Post-Racial America

    The Sweet (and Sour) Enchantment of Racism in Post-Racial America University of South Florida Patel Center for Global Solutions Auditorium 4202 E Fowler Ave, CGS101 Tampa, Florida 33620 Friday, 2015-11-13, 12:30-13:30 EST (Local Time) Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will be on campus on November 13, 2015, for the purpose of discussing his recent works relating to…

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

    Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency?

    Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency? NewBlackMan (in Exile) 2015-04-24 Mark Anthony Neal, Host and Professor of African & African American Studies Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke University University Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of the classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality…

  • Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think

    Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think Politico Magazine 2015-03-09 Sean McElwee Just Look at the Numbers News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and tensions between police and minority communities around the country are on the…

  • The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’

    The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-27 John Blake They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people to identify…

  • The invisible weight of whiteness: the racial grammar of everyday life in contemporary America

    The invisible weight of whiteness: the racial grammar of everyday life in contemporary America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 2, 2012 pages 173-194 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.613997 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Racial domination, like all forms of domination, works best when it becomes hegemonic, that is, when it accomplishes its goal without…

  • Rejecting Blackness and Claiming Whiteness: Antiblack Whiteness in the Biracial Project

    Over the past fifteen years in the United States, there has emerged a concerted push to reclassify people with one Black and one white parent as biracial. Advocates of this biracial project seek to have people of mixed parentage (PMP) recognized as a distinct, biracial race. They maintain that a biracial identity is more mentally…

  • Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Fourth Edition)

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed “Racism without Racists” documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society.

  • Rethinking race, racism, identity and ideology in Latin America

    Rethinking race, racism, identity and ideology in Latin America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36,  Issue 10, 2013 (Special Issue: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America) pages 1485-1489 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.808357 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University, Durham, North Carolina This special issue…