Journal ArticleJournal of Family Theory and Review · June 1, 2023
In this article, I urge family scholars to anchor their race work on the structural racism perspective. First, I provide some limitations of the prejudice problematic used by most family scholars. Second, I discuss the basic components of my structural the ...
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Journal ArticlePhysical Review Physics Education Research · January 1, 2023
Mainstream physics teaching and learning produces material outcomes that, when analyzed through the lens of Critical Race Theory, point to white supremacy, or "the systemic maintenance of the dominant position that produces white privilege"(Battey & Levya, ...
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Journal ArticleSociology of Race and Ethnicity · July 1, 2022
In this article the author examines how the frameworks of color-blind racism have influenced many topics during the pandemic. Using readily available material from popular culture (TV shows, newspaper and magazine articles, and advertisements) and from sta ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Behavioral Scientist · January 1, 2022
In this paper, we examine the academy as a specific case of the racialization of space, arguing that most colleges and universities in the United States are in fact historically white colleges and universities (HWCUs). To uncover this reality, we first des ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
In this chapter, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Liann Yamashita explain the danger of conceptualizing racism as something based primarily in individual actions instead of as a system that we all participate in, whether as victims or as benefactors. Bonilla-Silv ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Inquiry · August 1, 2021
In this article, I clarify some components and expand a few underdeveloped ideas of the racialized social system approach to racial stratification. I divide the paper into three parts. In the first section, I explore the limitations of the figure of “the r ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Behavioral Scientist · November 1, 2019
The election of 45 brought significant questions about race (and race-class) that merit theoretical consideration. My goal in this article is to discuss how racial theory applies to three main themes that followed the 2016 election: (a) dealing with the “r ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Currents · February 1, 2019
In this address, I challenge dominant narratives explaining the rise of Trumpism in America. Specifically, I dispute four ideas that have emerged to account for Trump’s election. First, I suggest that understanding his election as the product of the politi ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · February 1, 2019
In this presidential address, I advance a theoretical sketch on racialized emotions—the emotions specific to racialized societies. These emotions are central to the racial edifice of societies, thus, analysts and policymakers should understand their collec ...
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Journal ArticleSociology of Race and Ethnicity · April 1, 2016
In this reply, I accept Professor Fenelon basic critique: that I, as most “race scholars,” fail to take seriously Indigenous accounts in my theorization. However, I challenge several of his specific arguments about my work as well as some of his historical ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
Race-related research presents a number of unique challenges that must be addressed so the integrity of the research process as well as the validity and reliability of the data can remain strong. Race as a category is a dehumanizing process because for hun ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Behavioral Scientist · October 4, 2015
In this article, I describe the racial order of America in the post–Civil Rights era. First, I discuss what racism is all about and emphasize the centrality of conceiving the phenomenon in a structural way. Second, I argue that the “new racism,” or the set ...
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Journal ArticleSociology of Race and Ethnicity · January 1, 2015
Racism has always been “more than prejudice,” but mainstream social analysts have mostly framed race matters as organized by the logic of prejudice. In this paper, I do four things. First, I restate my criticism of the dominant approach to race matters and ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2014
As Obama’s presidency enters its second term, it is more than time to get over the Obama-induced hangover and realize that his real ‘audacity’ has been to carry out a centre-right political agenda while doing absolutely nothing on the race front. In this c ...
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Journal ArticleEthnic and Racial Studies · October 1, 2013
This special issue explores ideas of race and racial hierarchy in Latin America in the twenty-first century. By examining the intersection between racialization and processes of identity formation, political struggle, as well as intimate social and economi ...
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Book · July 29, 2013
In this fourth edition, Racism without Racists will continue to challenge readers and stimulate discussion about the state of race in America today. ...
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Book · January 11, 2013
White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology to give readers an important and cutting-edge study of "whiteness". ...
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Journal ArticleEthnic and Racial Studies · February 1, 2012
Racial domination, like all forms of domination, works best when it becomes hegemonic, that is, when it accomplishes its goal without much fanfare. In this paper, based on the Ethnic and Racial Studies Annual Lecture I delivered in May 2011 in London, I ar ...
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Journal ArticlePolitical Power and Social Theory · December 1, 2011
In this special section of Political Power and Social Theory, we present the work of scholars from various disciplines documenting and analyzing the Obama phenomenon. The work in this section, including both theoretical and empirical analysis, is an early ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Marriage and Family · June 1, 2010
In the millennium's inaugural decade, 2 interrelated trends influenced research on America's families of color: the need for new knowledge about America's growing ethnic/racial minority and immigrant populations and conceptual advances in critical race the ...
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Journal ArticleSocieties without Borders · October 1, 2009
In this paper we address some of the major limitations of the human rights tradition (HRT) in addressing issues of racial inequality. We contend that the universalist and individual-based framework of HRT fails to appreciate the significance of society's r ...
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Journal ArticleEthnic and Racial Studies · July 1, 2009
Christina A. Sue commented on my 2004 article in Ethnic and Racial Studies on the Latin Americanization of racial stratification in the USA. Almost all her observations hinge on the assumption that racial stratification in Latin American countries is funda ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Marriage and the Family · 2009
This is a decade review of the family literature on race. The focus of the review is on how color, as one element of racial formation, matters in family matters. ...
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Journal Article · December 1, 2008
Aside from what exists in the U.S. there is another layer of complexity in Latin American racial stratification systems. They include three racial strata, which are internally designated by color. In addition to skin tone, phenotype, hair texture, eye colo ...
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Journal ArticleRace and Society · 2008
This is a response to a comment on my 2004 article in the same journal where I articulated a prediction about the future of racial stratification in the USA. ...
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Journal ArticleEthnic and Racial Studies · January 1, 2008
This paper uses innovative survey questions from the 1998 Detroit Area Study to examine how whites communicate their views about racial matters across three affirmative action hiring scenarios. Results suggest that most whites prefer explanations for not h ...
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Journal ArticleSymbolic Interaction · June 1, 2007
The residential and social segregation of whites from blacks creates a socialization process we refer to as "white habitus". This white habitus limits whites' chances for developing meaningful relationships with blacks and other minorities spatially and ps ...
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Journal ArticleCritical Sociology · June 1, 2006
Residential and social hypersegregation of whites from blacks furthers a socialization process we refer to as "white habitus." "White habitus" geographically and psychologically limits whites' chances of developing meaningful relationships with blacks and ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary Sociology · 2005
In this long review article (2,400 hundred words) I challenge the radical Marxist project in American sociology. First, I challenge its whiteness. Second, I challenge its male orientation and blindness to the centrality of gender. Third, I critique its cla ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Forum · December 1, 2004
In this paper we discuss the dominant racial stories that accompany color-blind racism, the dominant post-civil rights racial ideology, and asses their ideological role. Using interview data from the 1997 Survey of College Students Social Attitudes and the ...
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Journal ArticleEthnic and Racial Studies · November 1, 2004
In this article I argue that the bi-racial order (white vs non-white) typical of the United States is undergoing a profound transformation. Because of drastic changes in the demography of the nation as well as changes in the racial structure of the world-s ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Political Ideologies · February 1, 2003
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 colle ...
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Journal ArticleRace and Society · December 1, 2002
In this article I respond to the criticisms and comments of the authors in this symposium on my Latin Americanization of race relations thesis. After I respond to each participant, I attempt to refine and clarify four central aspects of my thesis, namely, ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Latin American Studies · June 19, 2002
Information on Cuban immigrants from the recent 'Measuring Cuban Opinion Project' survey is used to determine the extent to which race matters. We use multivariate binomial logistic regression models to determine if race can be predicted by key demographic ...
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Journal ArticleCritical Sociology · January 1, 2002
In this paper I argue that color blind racism, the central racial ideology of the post-civil rights era, has a peculiar style characterized by slipperiness, apparent nonracialism, and ambivalence. This style fi ts quite well the normative climate of the co ...
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Journal ArticleRace and Society · December 1, 2001
Although the survey community almost unanimously agrees that Blacks and Whites have vastly different views on central matters, few qualitative studies have validated this claim. Thus, in this study we examine Blacks' views with interview data from the Detr ...
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Book · 2001
Bonilla-Silva (sociology, Texas AandM U.) addresses the reasons that black Americans and other racial minorities lag behind whites in terms of income, wealth, occupational and health status, educational attainment, and other social ... ...
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Journal ArticleRace and Society · January 1, 2001
The academic declining significance of race did not begin with William Julius Wilson's work in the late 1970s. In this paper, we take a broad look at the methods mainstream sociologists have used to validate Whites' racial common sense about racial matters ...
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Journal ArticleDiscourse and Society · January 1, 2000
Survey-based research on Whites' racial attitudes in the USA has characterized their views as either 'tolerant' or 'ambivalent'. We argue that surveys on racial attitudes have systematically underestimated the extent of prejudice in the White population. T ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Inquiry · January 1, 2000
In this paper I argue that the racial ideology of the Western nations of the world-system has converged over the past twenty years. This new ideology or, as many analysts call it, the "new racism," includes: (1) the notion of cultural rather than biologica ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · January 1, 1997
The study of race and ethnic conflict historically has been hampered by inadequate and simplistic theories. I contend that the central problem of the various approaches to the study of racial phenomena is their lack of a structural theory of racism. I revi ...
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