Future President of American Sociological Association to Speak on How ‘World (Almost) Ended’ After Trump Election

An upcoming event at the University of Edinburgh featuring future president of the American Sociological Association, Duke professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,  will discuss how the “world (almost) ended” after Donald Trump’s victory in November’s presidential election.

Duke Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, the president-elect of the American Sociological Association, will give a lecture entitled, “‘Racists,’ ‘Class Anxieties,’ and Hegemonic Racism in Trumpamerica,” at the University of Edinburgh on June 14.

“The world (almost) ended in (sic) November 9, 2016,” the event description reads, “when an orange meteor called Trump hit America.”

According to promotional material for the event, the lecture will cover three main areas, all of which have to do with supposed deep-seated institutional racism that Bonilla-Silva believes lifted President Trump to victory in November’s presidential election.

• First, he will contend that the focus on the “racists” prevented social scientists and pundits from examining the systemic racism in place in the nation and how it shapes the racial views of whites.
• Second, he will examine the idea that disenfranchised whites expressed their class anxieties by voting for Trump. This view ignores that whites also express their racial views through their political behavior.
• Third, he will suggest that despite the rhetoric in the campaign, hegemonic racism in America is still organized by the “new racism” and its ideological expression: color-blind racism.

Nealy all of Bonilla-Silva’s academic work has been on the topic of race and institutional discrimination.

Speaking to CNN, Bonilla-Silva claimed that institutional discrimination didn’t cease to exist after the 1970s, as some suggested. “After the 1960s and early 1970s, somehow we developed the mythology that systemic racism disappeared,” Bonilla-Silva said. Rather, he argued, “new racism” ushered in an era of harder to identify acts of discrimination.

Tom Ciccotta is a libertarian who writes about economics and higher education for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter @tciccotta or email him at tciccotta@breitbart.com