Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, PhD, is a professor of sociology and a council member of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University. He is the author of several books including the acclaimed Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. He is also the the author and co-author of numerous other books and papers. Most interestingly for this program, Dr. Bonilla-Silva co-authored a chapter in Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity: Theory, Methods and Public Policy entitled "We are all Americans!’" : The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the USA.
The center question of this discussion will be the functionality of the term "non-black people" in eliminating the global system of racism (white/light domination).