Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (born February 6, 1962[1]) is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Duke University.
His father, Jacinto Bonilla,[6] was a university lecturer and his mother, Ruth Maria Silva,[3] was a sociologist, like her son.
Bonilla-Silva married Mary Hovsepian[6] He has a son named Omar Francisco Bonilla from a previous marriage.
[11] In October 2017, Bonilla-Silva criticized Supreme Court Justice John Roberts for referring to social science as "sociological gobbledygook.
[14] However, he changed his focus soon as he learned and encountered racial prejudice and felt a calling to deal with the racism in the United States.
In one of his earliest literature, Bonilla-Silva suggested a "structural" understanding of racism, a relatively unexplored and revolutionary way of approaching this idea.