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On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams

Hosted by the British Journal of Sociology and the Department of Sociology

In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, Old Building)

Speaker

Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Chair

Professor Aaron Reeves

Professor Aaron Reeves

Moderator

Professor Aaron Reeves

Dr Ali Meghji

In this year’s annual British Journal of Sociology lecture, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years.

Specifically, dealing with the import of racial ideology (color-blind racism) and racial grammar as swell as the matter of “racialized emotions” as central to maintain racial order. The lecture will explore his recent and ongoing work on (white) normativity and racial habituation, racial subjects and RWF (regular white folks henceforth), and the various roads to change.

Meet our speaker and chair

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke and current Pitt Professor at Cambridge, specializes in race studies. His research spans racial theory, color-blind racism, race stratification, racial grammar, whiteness, and more. Bonilla-Silva argues that racism is a collective, structural phenomenon of racial domination. His work explores how race intersects with methodology, human rights, citizenship, and institutions.

Ali Meghji is Associate Professor in Social Inequalities at the University of Cambridge. His research puts critical race theory into dialogue with postcolonial sociology in order to understand the global dynamics of racialisation and racism.

Aaron Reeves (@aaronsreeves) is Professor of Sociology at LSE. An award-winning sociologist who has conducted pioneering studies on health and social class, he is the co-editor of the British Journal of Sociology.

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