Eduardo Bonilla‐Silva's scientific contributions

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Article
In this paper I argue that the racial ideology of the Western nations of the world-system has converged over the past twenty years. This new ideology or, as many analysts call it, the “new racism,” includes: (1) the notion of cultural rather than biological difference, (2) the abstract and decontextualized use of the discourse of liberalism and ind...

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... Beyond racial bias itself, certain ideological stances concerning racism may explain discomfort with BLM and a preference for ALM. ALM is explicitly colour-blind; that is, the movement endorses 'the belief that race should not and does not matter' (Neville, Lilly, Lee, Duran, & Browne, 2000, p. 60; see also Bonilla-Silva & Forman, 2000). While this may initially seem like an egalitarian stance, it also frequently reflects a limited understanding of the ways bias and discrimination operate and affect Black people and other minorities, as well as an unwillingness to acknowledge racism in contemporary society or to do anything to address that racism (Tawa, Ma, & Katsumoto, 2016). ...
... White supremacy encompasses religious, scientific, legal, biological, and cultural theories of so-called race; the concept of race is a product of White supremacy (Fields & Fields, 2014;Kendi, 2016). White Nationalism is the ideology of settler colonialism that frames the United States as a White country (Bonilla-Silva, 2000), melting pot (Steinberg, 2007), or a nation of immigrants (Dunbar-Ortiz, 2021). Both covert (for example, in historiography) and overt (for example, in violent extremist hate crime and terrorism) expressions of this ideology are built on a foundation of White supremacist settler colonialism. ...