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The Lewis M. Killian Papers consists of publications, typescripts, speeches, and correspondence documenting the academic career of Lewis M. Killian, professor of sociology at Florida State University (1952-1968) and University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1969-1985), especially concerning his research in disaster study and race relations in the United States.

The digital collection is only selections from the physical collection. For more information about the collection and its contents, see the collection's finding aid.

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: Organization, Rationality and Spontaneity in the Civil Rights Movement; 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 emergence, and the transformation of pre-existing structures.

: Others; 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 other groups who have "some sort of ethnic identity" in terms of ethnic relations.

: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnic Relations : Some Propositions; Twelve points of proposition about race relations, prejudice, and various cases of discrimination.

: Problems and Trends in Race Relations, 1954-1961; 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 a problem, they cannot agree as to what the problem is."

: Race Relations Industry as a Sensitizing Concept; "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 characteristics of the professionalized "race relations industry.""

: Race Relations and the Nineties: Where Are The Dreams of the Sixties?; 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.

: Race Relations in the Urbanized South; 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 and protest groups to flourish and the doors which have been opened to Black Americans because of this.

: Race Relations: An Era of Struggle; Paper on the belief in progress of "Negro-white relations". Covers topics of the mythology of race relations and the history which has brought about the idea of race relations as it was understood in the 1900s.

: Rank Orders of Discrimination of Negroes and Whites in a Southern City; 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 such as economics, legal, and public facilities and the differences between answers given by African Americans and Caucasian participants.

: Real White Backlash; This paper is not for publication. It covers the topic of "white backlash", the terms history and the different uses of said term.

: Rebirth in a Therapeutic Community: A Case Study; 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 the nature of hospitalization, the character of institutions, the process of resocialization, and patient-staff interactions are presented.

: Repairers of the Breach; This pamphlet details the stories of women in the south which relate to the growth of cooperation between "Negro and white women in their efforts to make Christianity a real factor in Southern life".

: Role of the White Liberals in Changing Patterns of Race Relations in the South; 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 dominant groups, including the similarities and differences and how they both define their roles in society.

: Sermon by Lewis Killian; 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 possibility and hope that it would be passed on to the Black Economic Development Conference.

: Significance of Extremism in the Black Revolution; "This paper examines the connotations of the term "extremism" as used with reference to the Black Protest Movement."

: Social Movements; This pamphlet follows the study of social and cultural movements and changes through the lens of sociology

: Social Movements; This publication describes the prospect of socialism, social movement structure, relationships, and types. It discusses specific social movements of the 18th and 19th centuries and the dynamics, interior structure, social factors, psychological causes, and the consequences of a successful movement.

: Social Sciences and Man's Quest for Utopia; This paper illustrates the threats and possible problems that "Scientism" creates in its quest to create utopia based on science.

: Sociological Perspective on Leadership; 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.

: Sociologists Look at the Cuckoo's Nest: The Misuse of Ideal Types; This paper deliberates over the prevailing sociological perspective on mental hospitals is congruent with the caricature presented in the movie, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." It details the view of mental illness as "residual deviance" and mental hospitals as total institutions in which patients who are not really sick are oppressed by authoritarian mental health professionals. This paper gives propositions to explain why such a negative stereotype has been widely accepted, and how the reformist bias of sociologists and naive reliance on pseudopatient studies have led some sociologists to "forget that mental patients actually may suffer pain."

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