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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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#380

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#140

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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's Degrees

Bachelors Sociology University of Puerto Rico

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According to Wikipedia, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Duke University. He was the 2018 president of the American Sociological Association. Early influences Bonilla-Silva was educated in Puerto Rico where he double majored in Sociology and Economics. In his work White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era, he says that "Myriam Muniz, Arturo Torrecillas, Carlos Buitrago, Juan Jose Baldrich, Carlos Ramos [...] shaped my sociological imagination." Bonilla-Silva has stated that Jose A. Padin and Charles Camic were two mentors that influenced his development as a sociologist.

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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's Published Works

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Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States (2006) (3164)
RETHINKING RACISM: TOWARD A STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION * (1997) (1817)
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (2003) (1395)
White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2001) (876)
From bi-racial to tri-racial: Towards a new system of racial stratification in the USA (2004) (688)
White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology (2008) (385)
The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism: How to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding “Racist” (2002) (370)
Critical Race Theories, Colorism, and the Decade's Research on Families of Color (2010) (308)
The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America (2015) (293)
Racism without Racists (2003) (255)
When Whites Flock Together: The Social Psychology of White Habitus (2006) (226)
The Sweet Enchantment of Color-Blind Racism in Obamerica (2011) (208)
The invisible weight of whiteness: the racial grammar of everyday life in contemporary America (2011) (202)
More than Prejudice (2015) (196)
“I Did Not Get that Job Because of a Black Man...”: The Story Lines and Testimonies of Color-Blind Racism (2004) (183)
Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions (2019) (172)
The Essential Social Fact of Race (1999) (169)
White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism (2003) (159)
We are all Americans!: the Latin Americanization of racial stratification in the USA (2002) (146)
“New Racism,” Color-Blind Racism, and the Future of Whiteness in America (2013) (121)
Anything but Racism: How Sociologists Limit the Significance of Racism (2001) (106)
Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute (review) (2006) (101)
Racial attitudes or racial ideology? An alternative paradigm for examining actors' racial views (2003) (94)
Rethinking Whiteness Studies (2013) (91)
“This is a White Country”1: The Racial Ideology of the Western Nations of the World‐System (2000) (90)
Whitewashing Race: A Critical Perspective on Whiteness (2013) (74)
“Every Place Has a Ghetto…”: The Significance of Whites' Social and Residential Segregation (2007) (74)
“IT WASN’T ME!”: HOW WILL RACE AND RACISM WORK IN 21st CENTURY AMERICA (2003) (60)
The Latin Americanization of Racial Stratification in the U.S. (2008) (57)
When Whites Love a Black Leader: Race Matters in Obamerica (2009) (55)
Color-Blind Racism in Pandemic Times (2020) (47)
‘They should hire the one with the best score’: White sensitivity to qualification differences in affirmative action hiring decisions (2008) (36)
“Racists,” “Class Anxieties,” Hegemonic Racism, and Democracy in Trump’s America (2018) (29)
The Many Costs of Racism. By Joe R. Feagin and Karyn D. McKinney. Rowman & Littlefield. $24.95 (2004) (29)
What We Were, What We Are, and What We Should Be: The Racial Problem of American Sociology (2017) (25)
The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America (2012) (25)
Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao (2020) (25)
Rethinking race, racism, identity and ideology in Latin America (2013) (22)
State of white supremacy : racism, governance, and the United States (2011) (21)
Are Blacks color blind too?: An interview-based analysis of Black Detroiters’ racial views (2001) (20)
What Makes Systemic Racism Systemic ? (2021) (20)
The 'New Racism': Toward an Analysis of the U.S. Racial Structure, 1960s-1990s (1996) (16)
Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue (2009) (15)
The End of Racism (2014) (13)
Toward a New Political Praxis for Trumpamerica: New Directions in Critical Race Theory (2019) (13)
The 2008 Elections and the Future of Anti-Racism in 21st Century Amerika or How We Got Drunk with Obama's Hope Liquor and Failed to See Relality1 (2010) (12)
Down the rabbit hole: Color-blind racism in Obamerica. (2016) (10)
Historically White Colleges and Universities: The Unbearable Whiteness of (Most) Colleges and Universities in America (2022) (9)
The last shall be first: Best Books in the Race Field Since 2000 (2013) (9)
More than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order.By G. Reginald Daniel. Temple University Press, 2002. Cloth, $69.50; paper, $22.95 (2002) (8)
Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit (2001) (7)
Where is the love? A rejoinder by Bonilla-Silva on the Latin Americanization thesis (2002) (6)
Workshop: The Sweet Enchantment of Color-Blind Racism (2015) (6)
Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Getting over the Obama hope hangover: the new racism in ‘post-racial’ America (2014) (6)
Si Me Permiten Hablar: Limitations of the Human Rights Tradition to Address Racial Inequality (2009) (6)
Ambiguous Ethnicity (2002) (6)
RACE IN THE WORLD SYSTEM (2004) (4)
From Bi-Racial to Tri-Racial (2020) (4)
Towards a New Radical Agenda: A Critique of Mainstreamed Sociological Radicalism (2006) (4)
The Sweet Enchantment of Color Blindness in Black Face: Explaining the “Miracle,” Debating the Politics, and Suggesting a Way for Hope to be “For Real” in America (2011) (3)
The New Racism: The Racial Regime Of Post-Civil Rights America (2011) (3)
The New Racism: Racial Structure in the United States, 1960s–1990s (2021) (2)
Reply to Professor Fenelon and Adding Emotion to My Materialist RSS Theory (2016) (2)
Urban America and Its Police: From the Postcolonial Era Through the Turbulent 1960s (2004) (1)
Rethinking Racism : Toward a Structural Interpretation Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
Introduction: Examining, Debating, and Ranting about the Obama Phenomenon (2011) (0)
The racial folly of white liberals in Trump's America and beyond (2021) (0)
Chapter Five. It’s Real! Racism, Color Blindness, Obama, And The Urgent Need For Social Movement Politics (2010) (0)
Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (2009) (0)
The Hangover is Still Not Over: Obamerica a Year Later (2010) (0)
Excerpts from Racism without Racists (2020) (0)
On the Racial Fantasies of White Liberals in Trump’s America and Beyond (2021) (0)
Explaining the "Miracle": Towards a Sociological Interpretation of Obama's Election (2009) (0)
More than Black?: Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order (review) (2003) (0)
The Diversity Challenge at HWCUs—On the Urgent Need to Move from Formal Diversity to “Deep Diversity” (2015) (0)
HOW WEGOT DRUNK WITH OBAMA 'S HOPE LIQUOR AND FAILED TO SEE REALITY 1 (2010) (0)
Book reviews (2010) (0)
Race-evasive frames in physics and physics education: Results from an interview study (2023) (0)
The Many Costs of Racism (review) (2004) (0)

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Racism without Racists