Please join the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the first session of the Racial Equity Speaker Series featuring Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.the first public session of the Racial Equity Speaker Series featuring Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. The event will be moderated by Rose Buckelew, Assistant Professor, General Faculty in sociology and co-sponsored by the UVA Department of Sociology.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke University. He gained visibility in the social sciences with his 1997 American Sociological Review article, “Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation,” where he challenged analysts to study racial matters structurally rather than from the sterile prejudice perspective.
His book, Racism Without Racists (5th edition in 2017), has become a classic in the field and influenced scholars in education, religious studies, political science, rhetoric, psychology, political science, legal studies, and sociology. Bonilla-Silva documents how lying beneath the general conversation about race lives a very real collection of arguments, phrases and stories that have been told for generations to justify racial inequalities in the United States. He challenges the state of how we often think about race in America today.
This event will be closed captioned.