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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Duke University, will present 鈥淣ew Racism, Color Blindness and the Sweet (but Wrong) Myth of Universalism in HWCUs,鈥� at 4 p.m. Monday, April 15, in Maxwell Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU鈥檚 paid lots.

The lecture is presented by the Department of African American Studies in . Co-sponsors include the departments of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies; Languages, Literatures and Linguistics; and the Latino-Latin American Studies Program, all in The College of Arts and Sciences; the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean and the Department of Sociology in the ; and SU鈥檚 Democratizing Knowledge Project.

The fourth edition of Bonilla-Silva鈥檚 landmark book, 鈥淩acism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States鈥� (Rowman & Littlefield) is due to be published in July. The book, first published in 2004, continues to challenge contemporary views of race in America. According to the publisher, the book 鈥渄ocuments how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lie a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases and stories that whites use to account for鈥攁nd ultimately justify鈥攔acial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society.鈥�

The fourth edition adds a chapter on what Bonilla-Silva calls 鈥渢he new racism鈥� and updates the author鈥檚 assessment of race in America after President Barack Obama鈥檚 re-election. Obama鈥檚 presidency, Bonilla-Silva argues, does not represent a sea change in race relations, but rather embodies disturbing racial trends of the past.

Bonilla-Silva鈥檚 work gained national recognition with the publication in 1997 of 鈥淩ethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation鈥� (American Sociological Review), in which he challenged sociologists to analyze racial matters from a structural perspective rather than from the sterile perspective of prejudice. He has appeared as a guest commentator on PBS, including the PBS series 鈥淩ace鈥擳he Power of an Illusion鈥� and the PBS election special, 鈥淩ace 2012,鈥� a look at race, politics and changes in the United States.

Bonilla-Silva鈥檚 other books include “White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era” (Lynne Rienner Pub, 2001), “White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism,” with Ashley Doane (Routledge, 2003), “White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Social Science,” with Tukufu Zuberi (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), and “State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States,” with Moon Kie Jung and Jo茫o H. Costa Vargas (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Bonilla-Silva holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Puerto Rico and a master鈥檚 and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His awards include the 2007 Lewis Coser Award from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, and the 2011 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award presented by the American Sociological Association.