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More than Prejudice

Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions in Critical Race Theory

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ID2985626
AuthorsEduardo Bonilla-Silva (0009-0003-1819-6080)
Year2015
Volume1
Issue1
Pages73-87
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Race and Ethnicity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2332-6492 • E-ISSN: 2332-6506
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2332649214557042
OpenAlexW2341579430
LanguageEN
Citations received211
References cited79

Racism has always been "more than prejudice," but mainstream social analysts have mostly framed race matters as organized by the logic of prejudice. In this paper, I do four things. First, I restate my criticism of the dominant approach to race matters and emphasize the need to ground our racial analysis materially, that is, understanding that racism is systemic and rooted in differences in power between the races. Second, I reflect critically on my own theorization on race (the racialized social system approach) and acknowledge that I should have explained better the role of culture and ideology in the making and remaking of race. Third, I describe some of the work I have done since this early work. Fourth, I advance several new directions for research and theory in the field of race stratification

Critical race theory · Criticism · Epistemology · Ideology · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prejudice (legal term · Race (biology · Racial formation theory · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology

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