Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke University. His classical book, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (6th edition), has influenced scholars in education, religious studies, political science, rhetoric, psychology, political science, legal studies, and sociology.

Amanda E. Lewis is the Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and Distinguished Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She researches how race shapes educational opportunities and how our ideas about race get negotiated in everyday life.

Pamela Zabala Ortiz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University, USA. Her research focuses on race making; identity and belonging; and transnational constructions of race, specifically Blackness and latinidad. Her work can be found in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Identities.