Annual Lecture 2014: The Problem of Racism in "Post-Racial" America: Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

On September 18, 2014, The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace invited Eduardo Bonilla-Silva to give a lecture on The Problem of Racism in "Post-Racial" America for the 2014 Bahá'í Chair for World Peace Annual Lecture as part of the Structural Racism and Root Causes of Prejudice Series.

The lecture starts at 26:28

Most whites believe racism has virtually disappeared in the country except for bigots such as Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling. In this presentation, Professor Bonilla-Silva argues that racism morphed in the 1970s into a more “civilized” system and produced a new type of prejudice. To make his case, he does four things. First, he defines racism and suggests that it is, above anything else, systemic racial privilege. Second, he provides the general characteristics of the “new racism” or the system of racial domination that replaced Jim Crow in the 1970s. Third, he describes the dominant prejudice of contemporary America which he has labeled in his work as “color-blind racism.” Fourth, he illustrates how the new racism system and the new prejudice work in organizations the parade as “beyond race”: colleges and universities. He concludes his talk by suggesting several things we might consider doing to slay the elusive racial dragon once and for all.

About the Speaker:
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University with affiliations to the following units: African and African American Studies, Latin American Studies, Latino Studies, and the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies. He is currently working on two books entitled, Anything but Racism: How Social Analysts Limit the Significance of Race (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Hayward Horton) and White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology (with Tukufu Zuberi). He is also working on a project entitled, "We are All Americans! The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the USA," where he explores the changing dynamics of racial stratification in the United States.

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