Posted on 03/08/2012 4:45:13 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will give the talk, "The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America," Thursday, March 22, at 7 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Social Science Colloquium series, "Shades of Black and Brown: Afro-Latino/a Interactions."
Professor of sociology at Duke University, Bonilla-Silva argues that "There is a racial grammar that structures cognition, vision and even feelings on a variety of racial matters. This grammar normalizes white supremacy as the standard for social events and transactions.
"The talk will illustrate how this grammar works and highlight what it helps to accomplish. Racial grammar is as important as all the visible practices and mechanisms of white supremacy and we must fight its poisonous effects even if, like smog, we cannot see how it works clearly," he said.
Born in Bellefonte, Pa., Bonilla-Silva was raised in Puerto Rico where he received his bachelor's degree in sociology and economics in 1984. He received master's and doctoral degrees in sociology in 1987 and 1993 respectively at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is the author of "Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation," where he challenged social analysts to analyze racial matters from a structural perspective rather than from the sterile prejudice perspective, published in American Sociological Review in 1997. He received the 2007 Lewis Coser Award given by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association for Theoretical-Agenda Setting.
His research has appeared in journals such as Sociological Inquiry, Racial and Ethnic Studies, Race and Society, Discourse and Society, Journal of Latin American Studies, Contemporary Sociology, Critical Sociology, and Research in Politics and Society among others.
He is the author of five books, White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era, co-winner of the 2002 Oliver Cox Award given by the American Sociological Association; Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, a 2004 Choice Award expanded and revised in 2006 and again in 2009 with a chapter examining the Obama phenomenon; and White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism with Ashley Doane. In 2008, he finished an edited book with Tukufu Zuberi -- White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Social Science, also co-winner of the 2009 Oliver Cox Award. His most recent book, with Moon Kie Jung and João H. Costa Vargas, is State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States (Stanford Press).
Bonilla-Silva is working on four book projects: Anything but Racism: How Social Scientists Minimize the Significance of Racism (Routledge), a project examining the characteristics of the emerging racial order in the USA provisionally titled, "We are all Americans: The Latin Americanization of Racial Stratification in the USA," the book The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America; and a textbook on race and ethnicity with Professor David G. Embrick (Loyola at Chicago).
Bonilla-Silva also will participate in a faculty colloquium on March 22.
The series is held in recognition of the United Nation's declaration of 2011 as the International Year of People of African Descent. The final speaker in the series is Patricia de Santana Pinho who will discuss blackness, whiteness and resistance to racism in Brazil on April 5.
The series is sponsored by the Provost's Office; the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender; the Office of the President; the departments of sociology and anthropology, political science, and economics; and the University Lectureship Committee.
Sounds likes he is using the deconstructionist language used by the crazy who shot Gabby Giffords. “Racial grammar”? “Invisible Weight”? None of this is based in sanity.
I gave a blind guy the business the other day. He was standing there with his guide dog waiting for the light to change.
Well, the light hadn’t changed and the lab steps off the curb(!) so I grabbed the guy by the arm and yank, and he hauls the dog back with the halter. We all wind up in a pile, while a big truck that had just missed them zoomed by, horn blaring.
So he gets up, dusts himself off ... and I’m waiting for a `Thanks for saving my life’ or something, but he’s fishing around in his pocket for something.
He pulls out a Milk-bone and he’s waving it around at waist level.
So I sez, “This dog almost gets you killed and you’re giving him a treat, you .... “
And he sez, “No, I’m just trying to find his face so I can kick his a**.
[Moral: As long as we keep our sense of humor, the lefty craziness is like water off a duck’s back.]
“Bonilla-Silva to discuss ‘The Invisible Weight of Whiteness’”
There has always been “a weight”, but it has never been never invisible.
Mr. Bonilla-Silva, did you never hear of “the White Man’s Burden” ??
Probably not. These days, what was once “a burden” has been transmogrified by the Civil Rights Industry into “white guilt”.
And despite five decades of being cowed by the discrim-industry and race-hectorers, there’s still more than enough of that guilt to go around....
You are presupposing forward thinking.
That is exactly what it is! They have a special hatred for Whites who happen to be Jewish, too. This is the mentality of Obama’s administration.
Canned speech he gives; here’s all 1 hour, 27 minutes of it, if anyone has that much time to waste...I don’t.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VH5GkYZYgo
Uploaded by UniversityOfRI on Oct 25, 2010 Honors Colloquium Fall 2010
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