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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
26633
World Ranking
5753
National Ranking
2723

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eduardo Bonilla-Silva sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 78 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eduardo Bonilla-Silva sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
  • 2011 - Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. The primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a specialization in Sociology and Political Science. Their research contributions also extend to Education, Gender Studies, and Safety Research.

The scholar's work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
  • Innovative Teaching Methods

Bonilla-Silva has authored multiple academic papers published in prominent venues. Selected recent works include:

  • What Makes Systemic RacismSystemic?, 2021, Sociological Inquiry
  • Color-Blind Racism in Pandemic Times, 2020, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
  • Historically White Colleges and Universities: The Unbearable Whiteness of (Most) Colleges and Universities in America, 2022, American Behavioral Scientist
  • Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study, 2023, Physical Review Physics Education Research
  • It's not the rotten apples! Why family scholars should adopt a structural perspective on racism, 2023, Journal of Family Theory & Review

The researcher has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Crystal Peoples
  • Amy D. Robertson
  • Verónica N. Vélez
  • W. Tali Hairston
  • Tyson H. Brown

Key publication venues for Bonilla-Silva's work are:

  • Sociological Inquiry
  • Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
  • American Behavioral Scientist
  • Physical Review Physics Education Research
  • Journal of Family Theory & Review

Throughout their career, Bonilla-Silva has received recognition via awards such as:

  • W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association, 2021
  • Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, American Sociological Association, 2011

Best Publications

  • Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States

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  • RETHINKING RACISM: TOWARD A STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION *

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology

    Tukufu Zuberi;Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America:

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • Critical Race Theories, Colorism, and the Decade's Research on Families of Color

    Linda M. Burton;Eduardo Bonilla-Silva;Victor Ray;Rose Buckelew

  • The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism: How to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding “Racist”

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism

    Ashley W. Doane;Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • Racism without Racists

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions:

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • When Whites Flock Together: The Social Psychology of White Habitus

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva;Carla Goar;David G. Embrick

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

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • More than Prejudice: Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions in Critical Race Theory

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • The Sweet Enchantment of Color-Blind Racism in Obamerica

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva;David Dietrich

  • ''I Did Not Get that Job Because of a Black Man...": The Story Lines and Testimonies of Color-Blind Racism

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva;Amanda Lewis;David G. Embrick

  • “New Racism,” Color-Blind Racism, and the Future of Whiteness in America

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • The essential social fact of race.

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • Rethinking Whiteness Studies

    Ashley W. Doane;Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda M. Burton
Linda M. Burton University of California, Berkeley

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