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In this paper, Lewis Killian reflects on his experience confronting political realities when writing a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in response to its ruling on Brown versus the Board of Education, expressing concern that, despite his...
In this paper, Lewis Killian discusses his relation to Ralph Turner and their journey in writing a book in collective behavior and what went into building and publishing such a book in four editions.
Affirmative Action and Protective Discrimination: A Comparison of the United States and India and Comparative Approaches to Multi-Culturalism and Education in Britain
Lewis Killan's paper is based on a research seminar given at the University of London Institute of Education and details the purpose of this identification by comparing protective discrimination, affirmative action, Gandhi's opposition, ...
This speech is focused on the idea of a "Last Lecture" for professors and teachers and especially for the social scientist. Killian posits that the last lecture is something a social scientist is sensitive to and find most important in...
This pamphlet covers a study done on the assessment of structure of African American leadership, finding that there is a significant change in leadership between the "Pre-Boycott" and "Post-Boycott" periods.
This paper questions how "the emergent governmental policy of collecting statistics based on descent as a means of identifying the "victims" in the society constitutes both a revival of race-thinking and a simplistic solution to the...
This pamphlet introduces the questions: "What does the Negro want" and "How does the Negro think he can best attain this general goal?" It discusses the social problems Black Americans face and evaluation of Black organizations.
Paper written by Lewis Killian detailing analysis of specific referents of the terms "race" and "ethnicity" in the Supreme Court decisions affirming the constitutional use of the terms and in other government documents. Killian posits...
In this paper, Lewis Killian concludes that busing can best be understood as a political issue rather than in terms of an education effect when comparing the origin of school busing in Britain and the United States.
This paper addresses that, while white Americans accept the principle of racial equality, they resist efforts to implement it and what this means for the radical economic reforms needed to reduce the inequalities of class and race.
This paper re-examines the Civil Rights Movement in Tallahassee, Florida. In doing so, Lewis Killian concludes that, while organization and planning are key variables, social movement theory must take into account spontaneity and...
Sermon given by Lewis Killian on his experience as a white Southerner speaking in support of the action of "our Special General Convention". This Convention proposed to give $200, 000 to the United Conference of Black Churchmen with the...
This paper discusses the evolution of what a "minority" is and the importance of the term as an element of language in domestic politics and international relations.
This paper presents a case study of a sociologist who played the part of participant and observer once admitted to a small inpatient psychiatric unit, therapeutic community, for recurrent depressive episodes. Various observations on...
In this paper Killian discusses "Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency" by Doug McAdam, critiquing McAdam's work as well as divulging in the positive data that came from it.
This is a reprint from the Journal of Negro Education in the Summer of 1965. It discusses the "intervening decade" of 1954 to 1964 as a decade of hope and promise for "Negro Americans" as well as one of frustration. It covers topics of...
Draft of a paper written by Lewis Killian on the fallacy of approaching problems in race relations as those needed to be worked out by "men of goodwill". This fallacy is in that "while men of good will may be able to agree that there is...
This pamphlet discusses how in some areas the Black community remains a peaceful "service community" which accommodate the needs of the majority white populace, and how in others cities the Black community took on a new significance as...
Pamphlet for a lecture given by Lewis M. Killian at the Third Annual Conference of Intergroup Relations held at the University of Houston on March 31, 1962. This conference was devoted to the problems of leadership between minority and...
An article from Social Studies News which discusses the sociological perspective of investigating the phenomena of leadership, in particular that of Black leadership in social movements.
This pamphlet covers a 1961 study on the difference in ranking of certain discriminations when questioning Caucasian and African American participants. It shows what areas of life African Americans rank as most to least discriminatory...
The schedule of the 1980 United States census of population included the most extended and detailed series of questions concerning race, ethnicity, and descent used since the first enumeration in 1790. This paper discusses the purpose of...
"This paper serves as a comparative analysis of race relations reform in the United Kingdom and the United States and draws attention to possible counterproductive constraints upon such reform emanating from the organizational...
Student manual for a case study focused on the history and understanding of black leadership which showcases the rhetoric and ideas of those during the civil rights era.
Margaret Andersen and Lewis Killian discuss how "very few say they are offended if not called their preferred term" in context of racial or ethnic labels
Teacher manual for a case study focused on the history and understanding of black leadership which showcases the rhetoric and ideas of those during the civil rights era.
This pamphlet covers proportions of Black American populations in metropolitan areas and the consequences of urbanization for the South and its Black American population. It also discusses the conditions which allow Black organizations...
This speech analyzes the idea of ethnic diversity and the consciousness Americans have, even before there was a United States. There is a focus on "Indians", Blacks, and the "Vietnamese" who spoke at the event as well as the absence of...
As part of the American Journal of Sociology, this entry covers the possible relation urban residency and position in the social structure has with anomia. This study, unlike past versions, uses both white and "Negro" samples and covers...
This is a field report on desegregation in the south with a focus on the bus protests. It covers reactions to the Supreme Court decision, white attitudes towards desegregation, attitudes of the "negro population", analysis of the...
The topic of the United States "graves crisis in the field of civil liberties" is discussed here as "recent" decisions of the Supreme Court with regards to "freedom from compulsory religious observances, the right to counsel, freedom of...
This paper discusses the "Negro Revolutions" victory that happened when the President of the United States spoke to the Joint Session of the Congress to the people of the nation. At this point in time, the chief executive had drafted the...
This paper covers subjects of protective discrimination in India, gaps in knowledge in the United States of this discrimination, compensatory discrimination, the emergence of preferential treatment in the US, and the cost of affirmative...
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