Join an interactive conversation between Professor Eduardo Bonilla Silva and Professor Arathi Sriprakash about the meanings of racism and anti-racism, as well as reparations and educational spaces. This event is part of the Thinking Us festival and will be followed by a drinks reception (19.30-20.30) and live performance by the Frida Violeta Band.
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Professor Eduardo Bonilla Silva
Eduardo is an sociologist and professor of sociology at Duke University in the United States. He is trained in class analysis, political sociology, and sociology of development (globalization). However, his work in the last 20 years has been in the area of race. Eduardo has published on racial theory, race and methodology, color-blind racism, the idea that race stratification in the USA is becoming Latin America-like, racial grammar, HWCUs, race and human rights, race and citizenship, whiteness, and the Obama phenomenon among other things. In all of his work, he contends that racism is fundamentally about “racial domination,” hence, racism is a collective and structural phenomenon in society.
Professor Arathi Sripakash
Arathi is a sociologist of education. Her current research examines reparative justice in educational systems and practices. How might collective recognition of past and present injustices help us imagine ‘reparative futures’ of education? What does reparation in education look like? Underlying much of this research has been an abiding interest in the racial politics of education. Her scholarship has explored the active erasures of racism and coloniality in the field of education and the ways in which racial capitalism sustains educational injustices.
Frida Violeta Band
The Frida Violeta Band is a vibrant all-women ensemble that has been bringing Latin American folk music to the UK since 2018. They blend classical and traditional instruments to recreate forms of music like cueca, bailecito, huayno, zamba and cumbia. Born in diverse corners of the globe—India, Mexico, England, Chile and Argentina—they seamlessly share and integrate their cultures and music with joy and love.
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