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Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo·1997·American Sociological Review
DOI 10.2307/2657316
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  • Bonilla-Silva explains how racialized social systems develop racial ideologies and contends that racial ideologies have a structural foundation.

    “In his 1997 article, Bonilla-Silva explains how racialized social systems develop racial ideologies and contends that racial ideologies have a structural foundation.”

    From A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism (2016) · cites this paper as Bonilla-Silva (1997)

  • Bonilla-Silva places particular emphasis on racial hierarchies and points to how these hierarchies influence all social relations.

    “Bonilla-Silva places particular emphasis on racial hierarchies and points to how these hierarchies influence all social relations.”

    From A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism (2016) · cites this paper as Bonilla-Silva (1997)

  • Societies that have racialized social systems differentially allocate economic, political, social, and even psychological rewards to groups along racial lines.

    “Societies that have racialized social systems differentially allocate 'economic, political, social, and even psychological rewards to groups along racial lines' (1997:442).”

    From A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism (2016) · cites this paper as Bonilla-Silva (1997)

  • Racism is an organized societal system in which the dominant racial group categorizes and ranks people into races and uses power to devalue, disempower, and differentially allocate resources and opportunities to groups defined as inferior.

    “Racism is an organized societal system, in which the dominant racial group, based on a hierarchy of human value, categorizes and ranks people into social groups called “races”, and uses its power to devalue, disempower, and differentially allocate societal resources and opportunities to groups defined as inferior [8,9].”

    From Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action (2019) · cites this paper as [8]

  • Racism interacts with other social institutions, shaping their values, policies and practices and being re-shaped by them.

    “As a structured system, racism interacts with other social institutions, such as the political, legal, and economic institutions, shaping the values, policies and practices within these institutions and being re-shaped by them.”

    From Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action (2019) · cites this paper as [8]

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Authors
Bonilla-Silva, E.
Venue
American Sociological Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1997-06
Volume
62
Issue
3
Pages
465
ISSN
0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/2657316
OpenAlex
W2132585345
Cited by
2,760
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 172 · 2025: 240 · 2024: 225 · 2023: 282 · 2022: 275 · 2021: 248 · 2020: 170 · 2019: 158 · 2018: 120 · 2017: 119 · 2016: 78 · 2015: 117 · 2014: 80 · 2013: 62 · 2012: 66
FWCI
48.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
American Sociological Review (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Movements and Cultural Identity
Keywords
racism, structural racism, social structure, racial inequality, social construction of race

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