Background
He was born in Galveston, Texas. He was the son of Ernest Virgil (an accountant) and Edythe (Harbour) Willhelm.
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Sidney Willhelm
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He went on to earn a Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution in 1961.
Career
He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Texas in 1957. He was an assistant professor of sociology at San Francisco State University (at the time called San Francisco State College) from 1960 to 1962. He was an assistant professor at The State University of New York at Buffalo from 1962 to 1965.
In 1965 he became an associate professor
And retired at the rank of professor in 1990. Willhelm was a visiting associate professor of sociology at McGill University in 1970, and during the summer of 1971 he served as visiting professor at the University of British Columbia.
In 1963 Willhelm introduced a course, "Automation and Society," which examined many of the social transformations which the computer would bring forth, a recurrent theme which is presented in many of his writings. His book Who Needs the Negro? was printed in 1970.
Willhelm also wrote an article titled, "Black Manitoba, Red Manitoba and White America: The Constitutional Approach to Genocide" (Catalyst, Spring 1969 No4 pp 1–62) and composed the online essay, "Understanding the New Imperial Empire: Will America"s Past Become America"s Future?" (2002).
Politics
lieutenant was reviewed in a number of academic journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Contemporary Sociology. Other books he wrote include Urban Zoning and Land-Use Theory (1962) (reviewed in American Sociological Review) and Social Forces. Black and White in America (1983).
And America"s Economic Elite: A critical review of Andrew Hacker"s Two Nations (1994).
