Background
Lewis, Hylan Garnet was born on April 4, 1911 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harry Wythe and Ella (Wells) Lewis.
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This is a participant-observer's account of African American life in a small Southern town just prior to the Civil Rights era.Consisting of "Blackways of Kent" (1955), "Millways of Kent" (1958), and "Townways of Kent", the "Kent Trilogy" forms a remarkable southern ethnography that maps the social stratification of the Piedmont town of York, South Carolina, in the late 1940s, after the Great Depression and before Civil Rights era. In 1946 the University of North Carolina's Institute for Research in Social Science commissioned a series of southern community studies from which these volumes resulted.Lewis offers a participant-observer's views on small-town southern race relations in the mid-twentieth century. Based on Lewis's interviews with community informants and experiences working in York between 1948 and 1949, the dynamic descriptions of individuals and rich explorations of institutions and traditions bring the community to life once more. Wholly segregated from the townfolk and from the poor whites of the mill village, the black community constructed a fully realized culture all its own. Most telling in Lewis's astute observations into the hierarchy of this community is that, unlike the rigid white class structure based in ancestry and wealth, stratification in the black community was governed by personal behavior. This edition is expanded with a new preface by Reed on the origins and impact of the "Kent Trilogy" and new introduction by Stanfield detailing Lewis's field research for this volume as well as his subsequent career.
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Lewis, Hylan Garnet was born on April 4, 1911 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harry Wythe and Ella (Wells) Lewis.
Bachelor of Arts, Virginia Union University, 1932. Master of Arts (Social Science Research Council fellow 1932, Rosenwald Foundation fellow 1939-1941), University of Chicago, 1936, Doctor of Philosophy, 1951. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary) Long Island University, 1997.
May 1945);Ione Lewis Bovoso. Married Audrey Carter, November 2, 1946. 1 son, Guy Edward. Instructor sociology Howard University, Washington, 1934-1941, professor sociology, 1964-1967.
Professor social science Talladega (Alabama) College, 1941-1942.
Information specialist Office of War Information, 1942-1945. Associate professor Hampton Institute, 1945-1948.
Associate professor sociology Atlanta University, 1948-1955, professor, 1955-1957. Associate director community services Unitarian Service Committee, Incorporated., Boston, 1957-1959.
Director child rearing study Health and Welfare Council, Washington, 1959-1964.
Member delinquency grants review committee National Institute of Mental Health, 1963-1967, member social problems research review committee, 1969-1973. Member development behavioral science study section National Institutes of Health, 1974-1976. Professor sociology Brooklyn College 1967-1977, professor emeritus, since 1977.
Visiting professor Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1977.
Michael Harrington professor Queens College City University of New York, 1990-1991,visiting professor sociology, 1991-1992. Senior consultant Clark, Phipps, Clark & Harris, Incorporated., 1975-1985.
Senior associate Kenneth B. Clark & Associations, 1985. Senior vice president Metropolitan Applied Research Center, Incorporated., 1967-1975.
Visiting scholar Russell Sage Foundation, 1974-1975.
Research associate Institute for Research in Social Science, U. North Carolina, 1947-1948. Consultant Volta River Project Preparatory Commission, Gold Coast, 1954. Ashmore project Fund for Advancement Education, 1953, Southern Regional Council, 1954-1958, Commision on Race and Housing, 1956-1957.
Consultant disaster study committee National Research Council, 1955-1956.
Member of advisory committee grants program United States Children"s Bureau, 1962-1966. Member of advisory panel small grants program unites states department Labor, 1963-1983.
Chief consultant family panel White House Conference Civil Rights Planning, 1965. Member review panel United States Office Education, 1965-1967;member Head Start research advising committee Office Economics Opportunity, 1965-1967.
Member grants advising committee National Endowment for the Humanities, National Foundation Arts and Humanities, 1967-1968, others
Fund for Advancement Education fellow, 1955-1956.
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Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fund for Advancement Education. Member: Alpha Phi Alpha, Eastern Sociological Society (Merit award 1979), Society Research Association, American Sociological Association (DuBois-Johnson-Frazier award 1976).
Married Leighla Whipper Lewis, October 4, 1935 (divorced May 1945). 1 child Carole Ione Lewis Bovoso. Married Audrey Carter Lewis, November 2, 1946.
1 child Guy Edward.