Hybrid Lecture – On White Normativity, Racial Habituation, and Cracks in Racial Teams
Wednesday 19 March 2025, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm GMT, online and London, UK
Speaker:
Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Chair:
Professor Aaron Reeves
Moderator:
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.
More about this event:
This event will be available to watch on LSE Live. LSE Live is the new home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can’t attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE’s YouTube channel.
Find more information and book your free place here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/03/202503191830/on-white-normativity
This event will be held online and at Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, UK.