Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor of sociology at Duke University, will deliver a keynote address titled “The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America” on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The event is sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and is free and open to the public.
He is the author of White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2001) and Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Third Edition, 2010). Bonilla-Silva is currently working on a project titled “We are All Americans! The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the USA,” an examination into the changing dynamics of racial stratification in the United States.
Bonilla-Silva received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Puerto-Rico and his master’s and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main areas of interest are racial stratification and race relations.
