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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Sociology
Duke Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
Sociology, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


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).

Current Appointments & Affiliations


James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology · 2018 - Present Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Sociology · 2006 - Present Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Education, Training & Certifications


University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1993 Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1987 M.A.
University of Puerto Rico · 1984 B.A.