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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
26633
World Ranking
5754
National Ranking
2723

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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