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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., September 8, 2014—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will visit Williams College to present “The Diversity Puzzle at Historically White Colleges and Universities: How Race Matters in Colleges and Universities in America.” He will speak at Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on Thursday, Sept. 11, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public and will include a question-and-answer session immediately following his remarks.
Bonilla-Silva is the chair of the sociology department at Duke University and the author of four books, including White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era (co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s Oliver Cox Award) and Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, now in its 4th edition.
“Dr. Bonilla-Silva’s prolific body of work provides a sociological mirror to the way race works in the United States,” says Candis Watts Smith, assistant professor of political science at Williams. “He requires his readers, students, and audiences to look beneath the ‘diversity’ patina to see the structural inequalities that persist in American society and at its finest colleges and universities.”
This event is co-sponsored by the programs in Latina/o studies, Africana studies, and American studies, the departments of anthropology & sociology and political science, the Oakley Center, the Davis Center, the president’s office, the dean of the college’s office, and the Claiming Williams Committee.
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Published September 8, 2014
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