Black and White: Reflections of a White Southern Sociologist

by Lewis M. Killian

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240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1994

Reviews

[Lillian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lewis Killian is the author of this book. Julius Lester wrote the introduction. Indeed, we stand on the shoulders of giants.Lewis Killian is one of them. When I was a student at FSU his graduate student was my sociology teacher. I remember Dr. Killian and his activity as a faculty member during the days wh4en the Mecca and Sweet shop refused to let African Americans eat there. He signed petitions in the Florida Flambeau , the FSU newspaper supporting civil rights when it was an unpopular thing to do This book examines his early beginnings in a Macon, Georgia the son of a single mother, his father having been killed during the War.Though the book chronicles in great detail his sense of race relations and explores them in sociological terms: his many papers, the Universities he taught and attended, his commitment to positiv4e race relations and teaching , it was at times a difficult read. His early life was most interesting to me and his years at FSU. He struggled with depression for most of his life and describes himself as a "cracker". Lewis M Killian was an amazing man. He conducted a study of working conditions of Black domestics in Virginia and their stories long before Help was published. Anyone interested in the South and Race relations and the people who paved the way for understanding would be well served in reading this book.