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  • Professor discusses covert racism

    Professor discusses covert racism The Dartmouth Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 2013-09-27 Bryn Morgan Though racism is more covert today, blacks are subject to the same prejudice as they were in the 1960s, Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva argued in a lecture on Thursday. Bonilla-Silva said a new form of racism has emerged, replacing…

  • The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America

    The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America Reitman/DeGrange Memorial Lecture Series Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) Thursday, 2013-09-26, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Sociology Deptartment Chair at Duke University, will deconstruct whites’ post-racial or color-blind talk & suggest…

  • Whites think race equality is nearer than blacks do, study finds

    Whites think race equality is nearer than blacks do, study finds The Los Angeles Times 2013-08-22 Emily Alpert Nearly half a century after Martin Luther King Jr. described his dream that someday people would be judged not by their race but by their character, whites think a colorblind society is much closer to reality than…

  • In Florida, a Death Foretold

    In Florida, a Death Foretold The New York Times 2012-03-31 Isabel Wilkerson In the mid-1930s, a Yale anthropologist ventured to an unnamed town in the South to explore the feudal divisions of what we commonly call race but what he preferred to describe with the more layered language of caste. When he arrived — white,…

  • Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities

    Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities Still Furious and Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? 2013-04-03 Robert Reece Department of Sociology Duke University Last week, an Asian-American fraternity at the University of California Irvine posted a parody of a music video featuring one of their members in blackface. Blackface has become the go-to…

  • CREE w/ Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, PhD

    CREE w/ Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, PhD Counter-Racist Evolving Engineer (CREE) Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-16 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, PhD,  is a professor of sociology and a council member of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University.  He is the author of several books including the acclaimed Racism without…

  • Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy

    Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy Cognella 2011 436 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-93555-160-7 Edited by: Rashawn Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations…

  • Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?

    As the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, President Obama is biracial. As a symbol of our times, he’s also called post-racial. On his census form, he classifies himself as black. Whatever he is, the categories obsess many Americans. So in advance of Randall Kennedy’s visit to Zócalo, we put the question…

  • From bi-racial to tri-racial: Towards a new system of racial stratification in the USA

    From bi-racial to tri-racial: Towards a new system of racial stratification in the USA Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 27, Issue 6 (November 2004) pages 931-950 DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000268530 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University  In this article I argue that the bi-racial order (white vs non-white) typical of the United States is undergoing a profound…

  • Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project

    Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project Chapter in: Race Struggles University of Illinois Press 2009 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in.; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07648-0 Edited by: Theodore Koditschek, Professor of History University of Missouri, Columbia Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Illinois,…