Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is an American sociologist, born on February 6, 1962, who is a professor of sociology at Duke University and served as the 2018 president of the American Sociological Association. He is known for his research on systemic racism and on what he terms racial colorblindness in the United States.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountBellefonte, Pennsylvania, United States 1 Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDeveloped the concept of colorblind racism, describing how systemic racism persists in the United States through subtler mechanisms rather than disappearing after the civil rights era 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountRacism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (2003) 1 Connections
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Bonilla-Silva Racism without Racists theorized colorblind racism as the ideology sustaining racial stratification after the retreat of explicit Jim Crow rhetoric.
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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (born February 6, 1962) is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Duke University.
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birth_place = Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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In 2003, he published the book Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, which discusses his view that systemic racism is a major problem in the United States, despite the fact that Americans do not do or say something overtly racist on a regular basis.
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He has said that systemic racism in the United States did not disappear in the 1970s, as many Americans believe, but merely became less overt and harder to identify.
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