Racism without Racist: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States : Fiche de lecture

Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is Professor of Sociology at Duke University. His areas of interest include race and ethnic relations, political sociology, stratification, Latin American studies, and Puerto Rican history. He is the author of 16 scholarly publications and five books; the most recent are White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era and Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (2003). In these works Bonilla-Silva explores the shift in U.S. racial ideology from Jim Crow racism to more subtle forms of racism in the post-Civil Rights Era, specifically the persistent denial of a "race problem" among white Americans.
Bonilla Silva He contends that the central problem of the various approaches to the study of racial phenomena is their lack of a structural theory of racism. Bonilla Silva reviews traditional approaches and alternative approaches to the study of racism, and discuss their limitations. Following the leads suggested by some of the alternative frameworks, he advances a structural theory of racism based on the notion of racialized social systems.