Donald Black papers

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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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POC: Brenda Gunn
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Phone: (434) 243-1776
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The collection is open for access with the following exceptions: Access restrictions apply to specific personal records under the terms of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (F.E.R.P.A.) for all materials in Box 37. These materials will remain closed until about 2077.

Folders 7-11 in Box 55 are also restricted.

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Preferred citation:

MSS 15031, Donald Black papers, box number, folder number, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
27 Cubic Feet 55 legal document boxes, 1 artifact box, 1 oversize folder and 22 mini DV's
Creator:
Black, Donald J., 1941-
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 15031, Donald Black papers, box number, folder number, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains items from Donald Black's life and career, spanning from the 1930s up until 2023, ranging from personal memorabilia from his high school years, to his research in graduate school, to drafts of his major published works, to his professional involvement as a leader in sociology and professor at the University of Virginia, including forthright and meaningful correspondence with colleagues and adversaries about sociology theories from academic institutions across the world leading up to his retirement from the University of Virginia in 2016.

His papers include his academic writings, manuscripts, conference papers and lectures, course readings, examination questions, syllabi, correspondence with students and colleagues, personal journals, and notes about ground breaking theories that he created in the fields of sociology, law, and criminology. They reveal the passionate, intellectual and personal thought processes of a dedicated scholar and professor who led a new way of thinking about sociology as a scientific approach to understanding social conditions, particularly situations involving conflict, by creating a model that was designed to be testable and that veered away from psychology and the study of the individual.

Roberta Senechal de la Roche papers are included in Subseries 5 of the collection. She was a full professor at Washington and Lee University where she taught sociology, history, and social history. Included are her articles, manuscripts, lectures, conference talks, correspondence with colleagues, and correspondence between her and Donald Black. Her published works of poetry have been catalogued separately.

Writings by Black, and by Black and collaborators. Organized alphabetically, and then chronologically within titles that have multiple folders (such as "Moral Time" and the Police Files).

Otherwise titled "Insurance Problems of Businesses and Organizations in high Crime Rate Areas" and "A Report to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice."

For graduate course "Deviant Behavior and Social Control" with Professor David Bordua

Graduate work

Code Books and other Notes

"The Geometry of Law: An Interview with Donald Black," by Andreas Buono; questions from Allan Horwitz; "How Law Behaves: An Interview with Donald Black," with Mara Abramowitz; "Interview with Myself," by Donald Black. Multiple drafts for Horwitz' and Abramowitz'

Graduate work, for course Sociology 520 with Professor W.S. Landecker

Includes American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; The Yale Law Journal; Journal of Consciousness Studies; Law and Society Review (includes notes on paper inside)

The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; Journal of Consciousness Studies; Law & Society Review

Some undated material

Contains some notes on the introduction, contains some notes on the conclusion for 'CST', contains newspaper article

Notes later finalized and published as "A Strategy of Pure Sociology"

Notes and finished papers

Toward a General Theory of Social Control; Social Control; Social Control as A Dependent Variable: Selected Bibliography

Heavily edited from 1972 draft

A Report to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice

Proposal to National Science Foundation

Includes note from Roberta Senechal de la Roche

Includes 2011 note from Donald Black

Personal and Property Searches Conducted in Radio-Dispatched Police Work: An Overview of the Data from Three Cities; Patterns of Interrogation and Confession in Field Patrol Settings; Insurance Problems of Businesses and Organizations in High Crime Rate Areas; Coercive Authority and Citizens' Rights in Field Patrol Setting

Police-Suspect Transactions in Field Settings According to the Race and Social Class Status of Suspects; Police and Citizen Behavior in Routine Field Encounters: Some Comparisons According to Race and Social Class Status of Citizens; Transactions with Suspects in On-View Police Work; The Evaluations and Images of Owners and Managers of Businesses and Organizations Toward the Police and Police Service

Surveys from Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan

Two copies

Contains also some miscellaneous material relating to Boston research

Suggestions from Al Reiss to Donald Black for a co-authored book that was never written.

Includes dust jackets

Graduate course taken by Donald Black at the University of Michigan

Published in Litigation

Includes book reviews and personal reactions

Appears to be incomplete. This proposed book of readings was never published

Retitled later: "Towards a Sociology of Moral Life: Some Notes on Durkheim," Spring 1965, for Sociology 805

Notes, includes drawings and outside articles. Also includes note from Black from 2011.

Notes

Part 1: The Geometry of Social Control

For Sociology 805 with Professor W. Landecker

Donald Black wrote chapter 9 of this edited volume. This also includes material from the Theories of Violence workshop.

For a class with Dr. H. Wolowitz

Graduate work

Graduate work

Works solely by other authors. Alphabetized by title/first word of folder label with the exception that if the folder starts 'further writings by X', then they will immediately come after the individually labeled writing by X. The works in 'Further writings' are organized chronologically.

Chapter Three; includes correspondence between Black and Scheff

Reprint from The Modern Law Review; Two Copies, each with different formatting

Thesis proposal; memorandum on dissertation proposal; "Strong State, Weak Ties: The Social Control of Homicide in Modern America", Cooney's dissertation proposal; Appendix B: Interview Schedule; Includes comments by Donald Black

"Predatory Policing: The Sociology of Traffic Law Enforcement"; "Third Party Justice"; "Social Sources of Witness Credibility"; "The Morality of Strangers"; Includes comments by Donald Black

"Evidence as Partisanship"; "The Morality of Strangers"; "Supporting Homicide"; "Supporting Homicide"; "Why Is Economic Analysis So Appealing to Law Professors?"; Includes some correspondence; Includes comments by Donald Black

"The Informal Social Control of Homicide"; "Homicide and Social Structure: A Precis"; "Two Types of Human Homicide"; "Homicide within Domestic Polities"; "Spousal Homicide as Execution and Rebellion"; Includes comments by Donald Black

"Community and Homicide"; "The Dark Side of Community: Moralistic Homicide and Strong Social Ties"; "Law and the Warping of Violence";

"Sex and Style in the Law of Homicide"; "Beyond Hobbes: Violence in State and Stateless Settings"

"Feud/Internal War, Legal Aspects of"; "The Social Production of Evidence"

Transcript of speech

Case studies on corporate subjects; Cases 1-24

Case studies on corporate subjects; Cases 25-49

Case studies on corporate subjects; Cases 50-71

Two drafts of outlines for "The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations"; "Vengeance Among Organizational Elites: The Management of Conflict in a Matrix Enterprise"; "The Private Ordering of Professional Relations: Weak Ties and Conflict Management in a Big 8 Accounting Firm"

The chapter outlines have no date, nor do "The Private Ordering of Professional Relations: Weak Ties" and "Conflict Management in a Big 8 Accounting Firm" have a definitive date

"Conflict Management, Honor, and Organizational Change"; "The Customs of Conflict Management Among Corporate Executives"; "The Power of Language in Adjudication and Mediation": "Institutional Contexts as Predictors of Social Evaluation"

Two separate copies of "The Customs of Conflict Management among Corporate Executives"

Printed in Law & Society

Dissertation

Dissertation

Dissertation

"Genocide as Social Control," by Bradley Campbell; "The Impact of Fee Arrangement on Lawyer Effort," by Herbert Kritzer, William Felsteiner, Austin Sarat, and David Trubek; "Life on the Atoll: Singapore Ecology as a Neglected Dimension of Social Order," by Timothy Austin; "Loosening the Chains of Philosophical Reductionism" by Steven Rytina, includes correspondence; "La Mobilisation du Droit: autobiographie d'un concept," by Andre-Jean Arnaud; "Predicting the Crucifixion of Jesus," by Nathan Altice; "Preface," by Robert Ellickson; "The Sociogenesis of Lynching," by Roberta Senechal de la Roche; "A Sociological Theory of Scientific Change," by Stephen Fuchs; "Summary of Dissertation Research," by Marian Borg; "Three Sociological Epistemologies," by Stephen Fuchs

Includes correspondence between Myers and Roberta Senechal de la Roche

Reprint in The Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in the Social Sciences

Manning's dissertation

Manning's dissertation

Includes correspondence between Borg and Black

"The Code of Science Analysis and Reflections on Its Future"; "Stratification in American Science"; "Age, Aging, and Age Structure in Science"

"Social Control from Below"; "Law and the Middle Class: Evidence from a Suburban Town"; "War and Peace in Early Childhood"; "The Myth of Discretion; The Sociology of Law"

Includes copies of curriculum vitae for M.P. Baumgartner

"Technology as a Third Party"; Includes correspondence with Donald Black

"Gossip in Science: A Study of Social Control and Reputation"; Appendices

"Crime in the Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance" (co-authored by Chris Uggen)

"Conflict Management in the Emergency Room" (prospectus); Includes comments by Donald Black

Notes

"The Sociology of Medical Malpractice"; "Malpractice Litigation as Social Control"; "Medical Malpractice, Social Structure, and Social Control" (1995, in Sociological Forum); Includes comments by Donald Black

'Beyond 'Thick Description' in a Test and Extension of Black's Theory of Partisanship: Patterns of Symbolic Partisanship in Geertz's Balinese Cockfight"; "Fan Partisanship and Competitiveness in Geertz' Cockfight and Beyond: An Application of Black's Theory of Partisanship"; "The Predictable Nature of the Balinese Cockfight"

"Employee Theft as Social Control"; "The Social Organization of Employee Justice": "How Workers Manage Conflicts with their Employers" (Doctoral dissertation proposal); "Therapeutic Bureaucracy"; "Social Control in a "Post-Bureaucratic" Organization"; "Corporal Punishment and Black's Theory of Social Control" (co-authored by Susan Ross); "Workplace Deviance as Social Control"; "Worshiping the Self: The Pure Sociology of Therapeutic Religion"

"Worshiping the Self: Therapeutic Religion and the Social World of New Age Healers" (unpublished manuscript)

Material related to coursework, course exams, evaluation forms, lecture recordings, lecture notes. Organized topically (and chronologically within topics) from proposals for courses, to course material, to course exams, to course evaluations, to miscellaneous material

Includes material for course- Social Control;

Full list of dates is 1971, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1984

Includes Maureen Mileski's review of "Marihuana Reconsidered," by Lester Grinspoon (1971), and Donald Black's review of "Why Men Rebel", by Ted Robert Gurr (1972)

Sociology of Culture, Phenomenological Strategy, Explanation in the Social Sciences Includes materials for other professors' courses

On different froms of deviance and control

These working notes were turned into a working paper for the Russell Sage Program in Law & Social Science, Yale Law School

Includes grade breakdown for Spring 1996 and Fall 1997 exams. Also includes 180 exam form from Harvard, and two exam forms for a course that James Tucker taught

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Some forms blank, some completed o Includes some correspondence

o Some forms blank, some completed Includes some correspondence

Some forms blank, some completed

Some forms blank, some completed

Some forms blank, some completed

Includes other descriptions of Black's work and contributions

Books containing information on chaired professors at the University of Virginia, includes Donald Black

Yale University Graduate Studies in Sociology; University of Virginia Graduate Studies in Sociology; Inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan; Echols Scholar pamphlet

Transcript of Program

Proposed for 1973-1974 academic year

University of Virginia, search for senior faculty member

University of Virginia; also includes requisition form for the University of Virginia Printing Office

University of Virginia

Includes note from 2016 from Donald Black

Date and title possibly originally mislabeled

Date and title possible originally mislabeled

Papers and materials from Donald Black's personal life. Organized alphabetically.

University of Michigan

University of Michigan, Master of Arts in Sociology; Candidate of Philosophy

North Central High School; Awards, certificates, and letters; 1953-1954; 1955-1956; 1956-1957; 1957-1958; Includes awards for Bruce Black, Donald Black's brother; Also includes 1978 award for the United States Olympic Society; Also includes 1960-1961 and 1961-1962 academic achievement awards from Indiana University Indianapolis Center

North Central High School; Also includes NCHS Recognition Day Programs for 1957 and 1959, and patches and ribbons

Contains 2 journals

Contains two journals

Contains two journals

Photographs of Black, his family, includes a guide giving details on photos. There is also a 1960 photograph of Delta Upsilon members at Indiana University in OS-Box P-43, Folder 1.

Distinguished Book Award for "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong", given by the American Sociological Association

Outstanding Published Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association

Mary L. Thomas Lecturer plaque, given by the West Virginia University Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Some correspondence will be between the individual and people who are not Donald Black, or between Donald Black and someone else concerning the individual. The first part of this subseries is on those who have enough correspondence with Black for them to have their individual folders; the second part of this series combines individuals alphabetically by last name if their correspondence was not substantial enough for their own folder. All correspondence also may contain information that has a separate subseries, if that information better fit within the flow of conversation in the main correspondence with the individuals. Be sure to cross reference with other files for more potential information. Organized alphabetically.

Law & Society editor

Also includes correspondence with Glenn Goodwin, as part of correspondences with Babbie

Includes Beirne's review of "Sociological Justice"; Partially on Theoretical Criminology, includes invitation for Black to be an advisory editor

Includes Bergesen's comments on "The Elementary Forms of Conflict Management" and "The Epistemology of Pure Sociology"; Includes Black's comments on Bergesen's "paper on Wallerstein"; Includes Bergesen's curriculum vitae

Includes correspondence on the American Society of Criminology and American Sociological Association

Partially concerning Studies on Law and Social Control

Concerning Borges' work on a paper on Black's life and works

Includes an invitation to apply to a position at University of California, Riverside; Mentions "Elementary Forms of Conflict Management", "Making Enemies", "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong"

Includes writings by Cooney, and letters of recommendation for Cooney by Black

Includes comments on each other's writings

Includes writing by Lewis Feuer

Full list of dates is 1975, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1993-1994, 1997; Includes reviews of de Grazia's work; Includes writing by de Grazia

Includes correspondence concerning academic promotions for Ekland-Olsen; Includes correspondence on Ekland-Olson's contribution to "Towards a General Theory of Social Control"

Mentions "The Behavior of Law", "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong"

Law & Social Inquiry; Mentions "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong", "The Epistemology of Pure Sociology"; Includes writings by Black

Partly concerning "Toward a General Theory of Social Control"

Includes advertisement for Black's books; Partly concerning publication of Black's "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong" by Academic Press; Partly concerns manuscript reviews by Black

Partly concerning "Toward a General Theory of Social Control"

Includes writing by Griffiths; Partly concerning "Toward a General Theory of Social Control"; Partly concerning Journal of Legal Pluralism; Mentions "Taking Sides", "The Behavior of Law", "Sociological Justice", "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong", other writings by Black; International Institute of Sociology

Includes writings by Grimshaw

Full list of dates is 1973-1980, 1985-1986, 1991-1993, 1996; Partly concerning "The Behavior of Law", "Studies on Law and Social Control"; Includes a manuscript review

Mainly concerning Horwitz' writing; Some correspondence concerning publication of Horwitz' work; Partly concerning "Toward a General Theory of Social Control", mentions other writings by Black; Includes writing by Horwitz

Includes proposal by Humphrey to the National Science Foundation

Includes invitations to others to participate in an American Sociological Association session organized by Black and Jasso

Includes correspondence concerning Johnson's book proposal; Includes correspondence on Frank Sulloway/"Born to Rebel"

Heavily concerning University of Virginia Sociology Department affairs

Includes correspondence on Kruttschnitt's dissertation

Full list of dates is 1977-1978, 1982-1983, 1987, 1993, 1995; Includes prospectus of Political Deviance: A Power and Process Approach

Includes manuscript review by Laumann

Partly concerning an Author Meets Critics session at an upcoming Law & Society meeting; Includes article that Leo is quoted in

Includes writing by Levett

Partly concerning Mahmood's graduate prospectus/dissertation

Includes Black's review of Manning's "Police Work"

Includes "The Limits of Rhetoric: A Practicing Attorney's View of the Truth About Persuasion", "How to Prove Jurors Will Be On Your Side" by Amy Singer

Mostly correspondence, some notes and writings

Heavily concerning University of Virginia Sociology Department affairs; Includes "Postmodernism and Society: Can Solidarity be a Substitute for Objectivity?" by Milner

Includes June 1997 East Asian Legal Studies Newsletter

Includes Morrill's curriculum vitae; Includes Morrill's review of "Taking Sides", "Making Enemies"; Partly concerning Calvin Morrill's graduate work, and National Science Foundation funding for it; Includes reviews of "Social Status and the Normative Seriousness of Managerial Acts"

Includes review of "The Behavior of Law"; Mentions "Toward a General Theory of Social Control"

Heavily concerning University of Virginia Sociology Department affairs

Includes a note from Black from July 29, 2010; Includes invitation for retirement dinner for Reiss; Includes obituary for Reiss

Includes Table of Contents and first chapter of Sciulli's "The End of Corporate Governance"; Includes Sciulli's curriculum vitae; Mentions symposium on "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong"

Partly on Shermann's study of Homicide by Police Officers; Includes correspondence with the Guggenheim Foundation

Includes abstract of Silberman's "Situational Factors in the Mobilization of Law:…"; Mentions "Toward a General Theory of Social Control"

Research in Sociology and Law; American Sociological Review

Includes "The Law of Evidence (and Other Epistemologies) as Optimizing Disciplines" by Stinchcombe

American Sociological Review; Partly on "Crime as Social Control"

Mainly concerning Tamanaha's reviews and comments to Black's work

Includes Trubek's curriculum vitae; One piece of correspondence is missing the first page

Russell Sage Foundation

Includes syllabus from Weintraub's Fall 1999 course, Sociology 285: Play, Culture, and the Self

o Heavily concerning matters related to Academic Press, including manuscript reviews, including "Studies on Law and Social Control" series, foreword for "The Logic of Social Control"; Includes Sam Long's curriculum vitae, and proposal for Political Socialization in Transition; Includes Werner's curriculum vitae

Includes writings by Wong; Concerning mainly research and a publication by Wong

Partly concerning Zang's efforts to translate "Sociological Justice" into Chinese; Includes Zang's "From Organization to Law: A Critical Review of Transformation of Social Control, 1949-1993"

Bruce Ackerman; Maria Albarracin; Susan Allen-Mills (Cambridge University Press); Lenore Alpert; Rafael Alvarado; Adam Ambrogi; M. Amir; Ann-Marie Anderson; Aderike Anjorin; Jorge Arditi; Andre-Jean Arnaud (Instituto Internacional de Sociologia Juridica de Onati; includes writings by Arnaud); Andrew Arno; Richard Arnold (and Christopher Murray; Southern California Law Review); Kauko Aromaa; Michael A. Aronson; Francis Astorino; Lonnie Athens; Vilhelm Aubert; W. Timothy Austin; Edward Ayers

o Lauren Ballback; Catherine Ballé; Flemming Balvaag; Serena Barkhan (Instituto Internacional de Sociologia Juridica de Onati); Flemming Balwig; Scott Barretta; Deborah Baskin; Alan E. Bayer; David M. Beatty; Jean Belkhir; Aaron Bell; Wendell Bell; James R. Beniger; Bennett M. Berger; Maria Ines Bergoglio; [Stephen Berkowitz]; Thomas J. Bernard; Ilene Bernstein; Ellen Berrey; Joel Best; Hemran Bianchi; Charles E. Bidwell; Chris Birkbeck; Faruk Birtek; Anne and Herman Black; Bruce Black ; Peter Blau; Joan Blishen

Stuart Blume; Paul Bohannen; Derek C. Bok; Ralph Bolton; Ulla Bondeson; John J. Bonsignore (American Legal Studies Association); Scott Boorman; Edgar F. Borgatta (to/from Jeffrey K. Hadden) M.G. Bouquet (concerning Jonathon Kelley); Lee H. Bowker Neil Boyd; C.K. Boyle; Keith Boyum (concerning "Empirical Theories about Courts"); Pat Brantingham; Harry M. Bratt (National Institute of Justice); Allen F. Breed; Marvin Bressler; Adele M. Brodkin; Moish Bronet; Ricardo C. Brosa; Steven Brint; Leonard G. Buckle & Suzann R. Thomas-Buckle; Marc B. Bulandr; Richard Burcroff (concerning Perla Makil's dissertation); B.R. Burg; Paul Burstein; Ron Burt; Carole Burton; Claude Buxton (funding request for "The Habits and Customs of the Police…")

Legare Hamer Calhoun III (includes writings by Calhoun); Charles M. Camic; Bradley Campbell (to Dick Holway); Ernest Q. Campbell; John Cardascia; Judith A. Caron; Leo Carroll; Kit Carson (concerning "Studies on Law and Social Control"); Bliss Cartwright; Carole Case; John T. Casteen III; Susie A. Castillo-Robson; [David?] Cavers; Dan Chambliss; William J. Chambliss; Janet Chan; Christopher Chen; Donna Chiozzi [Association of American Law Schools]; Burton R. Clark; David S. Clark (Sage Publications); John P. Clark; Robert Clark; Peggy Clarke; R.V.G. Clarke; Dan Clawson; Dorothy L. Clow; Lisa Coffman; Bonnie Cohen (Institute for Scientific Information); George F. Cole; James Coleman; Jane Collier (concerning "Toward a General Theory of Social Control"); Mary Ann Collins; Alfred F. Conard; Frank Cooley; Roger Cotterell; Rose Laub Coser; Herbert Costner (National Science Foundation); Carl J. Couch; Susan E. Cozzens (includes writing by Cozzens); Joan Crandall (Contemporary Sociology); Donald Cressey; Frederick Crews; Barrett Culmback; Lynn A. Curtis (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development); Preston S. Cutler (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences)

H. Richard Dallas (Southern California Law Review); Brenda Danet; Dale Dannefer; Gill Davies (Tavistock Publications); Malcom DeBevoise; Ami de Chapeaurouge; Richard de Friend; Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Dawn Detwiler; Guillaume Devin (Institut des Hautes Études de la Sécurité Intérieure); Frans de Waal; Shari Diamond; Stanley Diamond; Forrest Dill; Bradley Doll; G. William Domhoff; Brendan Dooley; Alan Dundes

Fred Eggan; Randall D. Eliason; John Ely; David M. Engel (partially concerning "The Oven Bird's Song"); Stewart Epstein; Kai T. Erikson; Annika Eriksson; John Ervin; Jack Etheridge; Amitai Etzioni; Salah El-Shukri; William M. Evan

Reynolds Farley; Ronald Farrell; Ezzat A. Fattah (concerning the International Course in Criminology); Robert Faulkner; Malcolm Feeley; Charles R. Fenwick; Theodore Ferdinand; Bruce W. Ferguson; Kathleen Ferraro; Stephen Fielding; Ken Fine (Academic Press); Peter Fitzpatrick; Richard Flacks; Carmen Flores; Bill Form; Bernard Fortunoff (Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Co.); Michael Edward Fowler; Daniel N. Fox; Paul Francis; Nancy Frantz; Jacob Fried; David Friedman; Lawrence M. Friedman; Phil Friedman (concerning "Encyclopedia of Criminology"); Robert J. Friedrich; Jürgen Friedrichs; Lisa Friel; John Fries; Morris Freilich; Douglas Fry (includes a review by Fry); Gail Funke; James J. Fyfe

José M. Gabilondo; Jean-Claude Gafner; Christine Gailey; Marc Galanter (Law and Society Review; "Toward a General Theory of Social Control"); John F. Galliher; Jackie Garrett; G. David Garson; Holly Geerdes; Clifford Geertz; Luis Gerardo; Maurizio Ghisleni; Jack Gibbs (partially concerning Omaha Symposium on Norval D. Glenn (Contemporary Sociology); Erving Goffman (American Sociological Association); David Gold; Jona Goldschmidt; Andrew Goldsmith; Abraham Goldstein (and Stanton Wheeler, concerning an academic appointment at Yale); Jack A. Goldstone; T.H. Gonser; Louis W. Goodman (includes Goodman's curriculum vitae); Norman Goodman; Lynne Goodstein (concerning an American Society of Criminology meeting's Author Meets the Critics session for Sociological Justice); Mark Gottdiener; Burke Grandjean (concerning James Tucker); Mark Granovetter; Bradford H. Gray; Carol J. Greenhouse; Martin Greig; Thomas Grennes; Shannon E. Griffiths; Jan T. Gross; Paul Gross (concerning "Sociological Justice") Joel Grossman (Law and Society Review); Jerrold K. Guben; Philip H. Gulliver; Ted Robert Gurr (concerning Gurr's "Why Men Rebel"); Bernard H. Gustin; Luis Gutierrez

John Hagan; Jerald Hage; Warren O. Hagstrom; John O. Haley (includes Haley's curriculum vitae, prospectus for "Order with Autonomy: A Study of Law and Social Control in Japan"); Terence C. Halliday; Thomas Hardy (Dialectical Anthropology); Wallace C. Harrelson; O. Fred Harris, Jr.; Peter Harris; Robert H. Hardt; Stephen Hart; Clayton A. Hartjen; Timothy F. Hartnagel (concerning Gwynn Nettler); Reid Hastie; Robert Hauser; Adam Hauser (includes Hauser's resume); James Hawdon; Joseph M. Hawes; Keith Hawkins; Diane Haywood; Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. Louis Hazouri, Jr.; Michael Hechter; Frances Heidensohn; Barbara Heiman; Max Heirich; Jane Hellsoe-Henon; Larry A. Hembroff; Paget Henry (on "Towards a Theory of Peripheral Cultural Systems"); John R. Hepburn (Arizona State University's Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series); John Herman; Merg Herriot; Scott Hershovitz; David Herwitz; Frederick A. Hetzel; Philip Heymann (some correspondence concerning inviting James L. Gibbs to be a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School); L.R. Hiatt; Louis Hicks (includes Hicks' curriculum vitae); Paul Higgins; Richard J. Hill; Travis Hirschi; Frank Hirtz; Andre J. Hoekema; Daniel N. Hoffman; Albert J. Holl; George Homans; Ruth Horowitz; F. Patrick Hubbard; Florence K. Hughes; L.H.C. Hulsman; John Hund; Ira W. Hutchison; Allan Hutchinson

Heleen F.P. Ietswaart; Eiko Ikegami; Warren F. Ilchman; G. Irving; Mary Iwanaga (The University of Chicago Press)

Thomas Jackson (Dean of UVa Law School); Herbert Jacob (concerning nomination to Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association); Rebecca Jakob; Peter Jambrek; Kenneth James; Gladys Jannaud; William Jeffrey, Jr.; Patrickn Jehle; Gary Jensen; Weidong Ji; Jason Jimerson (The Society for Social Research); James W. Johnston; Loch K. Johnson; Weldon T. Johnson; Willie Jones; Peter Just

Sanford Kadish (Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice); Samuel W. Kaplan; Miriam Kass (American Bar Association Section of Litigation); Stuart Kauffman; Betsy Keefer; E.C. Keller, Jr.; Stephen Kellert; Christopher M. Kelley; Jonathan Kelley (includes announcement for Kelley's win of the AAAS Socio-Psychological Prize); Delos Kelly; Hugh P. Kelly; Richard B. Kelly; Duncan Kennedy; L.W. Kennedy; Sue Kent; Ravindra Khare; Dinesh Khosla; Robert L. Kidder (Law & Society Review; includes a review of Black's writing); Jaegwon Kim; Gary Kleck (on "Sociological Justice"); Malcolm W. Klein; Rebecca Klemm; Albert Klijn; David Klinger; Michele Ann Klinsky; Klaus-Friedrich Koch; Elissa Koff; Andrzej Kojder; Deborah Kolb; Samuel Krislov; Herbert M. Kritzer (includes prospectus for "Lawyers and Litigation"); Krzysztof Kubala; Umesh Kumar; Erniel Kuncel; Jacek Kurczewski

Sharon LaDuke; Thomas L. Lalley (National Institute of Mental Health); Robert Lane; Michael Langley; Annette Lareau (Pure Sociology Network); Barbara Laslett (Contemporary Sociology); R.E. Laster; Janet L. Lauritsen; Su-Jin Lee; Jessica S. LeFevre; Eric M. Leifer; Robert D. Leighninger, Jr.; Barry Leighton; Judith V. Lelchook; David Lempert; Ugo Leone; Richard Leupert; Judith N. Levi; George C. Lewis; I.M. Lewis; Michael Libonati; Charles W. Lidz; Graham Lilly; Arthur G. Lindsay (includes writings by Lindsay); Gardner Lindzey; Al Lingus; Mario Lins (includes a request for a reprint); Allen E. Liska; Craig B. Little; Guang Kun (Martha) Liu; Jiabo Liu (includes paper written by Liu); William W. Lockhart; John Loflano; Wallace D. Loh; Judith Lorber; Maria Loś; Michael Lowy; Robin Luckham; Richard Lundman; Jim Lundy; Olivier Lunz; James Lyons; Joanne Lyons

o Geoffrey MacCormack; Virginia Mackey; Ginny Mackey; Paul Maidment; Bruce J. Malina; Michael Mann; Jason Manning (Pure Sociology Network); Henry W. Mannle; Wade Mansell; John P. Martin; Cheryl V. Martorana; Alexandra Maryanski; James L. Massey; Patrick E. Mates; Lynn Mather; Joan Matthews; Teelyn Mauney; Eleanor G. May; Leon Mayhew; Edward J. McCabe; Charles H. McCaghy; Michele McCauley; Reece McGee (concerning JoAnn Miller); Daniel McGillis; Robert McGinnis; Marian McGrath (Academic Press); Marshall McLuhan; Margaret Mead; Barbara Meeker (Annual Conference on Group Processes Research); James W. Meeker; Robert F. Meier; Gary B. Melton (Annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation); Paulo Mendonca; Sally Merry; Steven F. Messner; Michael Micklin (and Marvin Olsen); Midge Miles (American Sociological Association); Leslie B. Miller; Stacy Miller; Paul Steven Miller (includes funeral program for Miller); Stephen P. Mitchell; John Mogey; Eric Monkkonen; Fred Montanino; Mark H. Moore; Richter H. Moore, Jr.; Sally Falk Moore; Wilbert E. Moore; John H. Morgan; Charles Moskos; Imogene L. Moyer (Encyclopedia of Criminology); Jeffrey Mullis; Richard Münch; Harold L. Munson; Michael Musheno

Ilene Nagel; Joane Nagel; Barry Nakell (on "Studies on Law and Social Control"); Richard Neely; William Nelson (on "Toward a General Theory of Social Control"); Paul D. Neuthaler; Gertrud Neuwirth; Graeme R. Newman; Eva Charlotte Nilsen; John Brian Nilson (includes Nilson's final exam for Black's course Sociology of Law); Steve Nock; James L. Nolan; André Normandeau

William O'Barr; Anthony Oberschall (concerning "Pure Sociology"); G. Karl Oelgeschlager; Lloyd Ohlin; Vincent O'Leary; James H. Olila; Mervin Olsen; Robert M. O'Neil; Margaret O'Reilly (Dartmouth Publishing Company); Michael W. Oshima; Mark J. Osiel; Marian Osmun (Oxford University Press); Keith F. Otterbein; Patricia J. Ould

Deborah Palliser; Lewis Papier; William L. Parish (American Journal of Sociology); Roger Parks; Raymond Parnas; Hanna Pasikowska; Alan Paterson; Dennis Patterson; Orlando Patterson; Marion B. Peavey; Dennis L. Peck (Sociological Inquiry); Harold E. Pepinsky; Stephen L. Percy; E. L. Peters ("Toward a General Theory of Social Control"); M. Lee Pelton; Greg Pewett; Holger Pfaff; Bryan Pfaffenberger; William Phelan; Andrew Pickering; Ronald M. Pipkin; Jesse Pitts (Tocqueville Review); Alessandro Pizzorno; Adam Podgórecki; Aaron Podolefsky; Daniel Polsby; Henry N. Pontell; Richard A. Posner; Walter W. Powell (Contemporary Sociology); Derek Price; Maurice Punch; Haibin Qi

Richard W. Rabinowitz; Phyllis Raimone; Deborah Rapoport (Academic Press); John P. Reid; Sue Titus Reid; Robert Reiner; Peter Reuter (The Rand Corporation); Jonathon Rieder; Kristan Rieger; David Riesman; Beth Richie; Matilda Riley; Leonard L. Riskin; Christian Nils Robert; Simon Roberts; Irving Rockwood (Longman Inc.); Cyril D. Robinson; Maria Thereza Rocha de Assis Moura; Vivian J. Rohrl ("Toward a General Theory of Social Control"); Paul Romjue; Frank Romo; Lawrence Rosen; James E. Rosenbaum; Hildy Ross; Bess Anne Rothenberg; John E. Rothenberger; Frances Rothstein; Thomas Rudel; Bruce M. Russett (The Journal of Conflict Resolution); Andrzej Rzeplinski

David J. Saari; Albert M. Sacks; Frank E.A. Sander; Alberto Santos; Austin Sarat; Lew Sargentich; Joachim Savelsberg (includes writing by Savelsberg); Nikola Schitov; Christiane Schlumberger; Andreas Schneider; Mark Schneider; Phyllis Schultze; Karl F. Schumann; Russell K. Schutt; Barry Schwartz; Richard Schwartz; Robert A. Scott; Robert E. Scott; Andrew Scull; Michael Seidel; Philip Selznick; Judith Semper; Roberta Senechal de la Roche (to Christopher Schmitt); Diana S. Sepejak; Adjie Setiadi; Susan Shapiro; Edward J. Shaughnessy; K. Shoji; Alan Sica; Ilana Silber; Ed Silva; Robert A. Silverman; Richard Simon; A.W. Brian Simpson; Theda Skocpol; Jerome H. Skolnick (correspondence with Paul D. Reynolds); John Skvoretz; Barbara Slifkin (Seminar Press); Joseph T. Slinger; Jeffrey S. Slovak; Russell Smandych ("Towards a General Theory of Social Control"); Alden Smith; Charles E. Smith (The Free Press); Gregory W. Smith (The Free Press); Jerry Smith; Joel Smith (Duke University); Robert B. Smith; Eloise C. Snyder; Francis G. Snyder; Fred Snyder; Kathy Snyder (correspondence with Joleen Scott); Gary A. Sojka; Peter H. Solomon, Jr.; Karol Soltan; Christina Hoff Sommers; Donald R. Songer; J.J. Spigelman; Edward H. Stanford (partly concerning Stephen Vago's prospectus); William Staples; Paul Starr; Darrell J. Steffensmeier; John Stephens; Christopher D. Stevens; Frank Stewart; Thomas Stone (Studies on Law and Social Control); Norman W. Storer; Mark C. Suchman; Teresa Sullivan; Carl Sundholm; Guy E. Swanson; Richard Sykes; Kent Sycerud & David Hazelton (Michigan Law Review); Denis Szabo (International Society of Criminology; International Annals of Criminology)

Horace D. Taft; R.E.S. Tanner; Jeff Tatum; Nicholas Tavuchis; Alton Taylor (concerning Patricia Taylor); Clinton Terry; Robert M. Terry; Charles W. Thomas (Criminology); John M. Thomas; Madeleine Thomas; Susan Joyce Thomas; Terence P. Thornberry; Viguolo Tiepli; Harry F. Todd, Jr.; Sybil Todd (contains exit interviews for the University of Virginia); Roman Tomasic; Gladys Topkis; Daniel P. Torres; Stephen Toulmin; Jeanne Maddox Toungara; A. Javier Treviño (includes writing by Treviño); Simon P. Tsoako; Austin T. Turk; Janet Turk; R. Jay Turner; David Twain; W.L. Twining

Paul Upson; Steven Vago; Ivan Vallier; Geert van den Steenhoven; Ab van Eldijk; Paul van Seters; Dirk van zyl Smit; Blake E. Vance (Academic Press); Ana Maria Vargas Falla; Diane Vaughn; José António Veloso (concerning a translation of "The Behavior of Law"); Simon Verdun-Jones; Franz von Benda-Beckham; James Vorenberg

Walter J. Wadlington; Paul Wahrhaftig; James E. Wallace; Immanuel Wallerstein; Craig Wanner; Jacob Ward; Richard H. Ward; R. Stephen Warner; Carol Warren; Norma Wasser; Robert Wathrow; John Webb; David Weisburd; Terry M. Weiss; Joseph Westermeyer; Garland White; Regina White; Brent Whittlesey; Stephen G. Wieting; Brad Wilcox; John P. Wiley, Jr.; James Wilkerson; Nancy Williams; E. O. Wilson; James Q. Wilson, Richard Wilson; Thomas P. Wilson; Charles R. Winfrey; S.F. Wise; Emily Wilkinson; Laura Woloshyn; Calvin Woodard; Bob Woodbury (St. Martin's Press); William E. Woodcock; Lynn Woodson; Charles M. Woolf; Alissa Pollitz Worden; J.H. Wright; Jerome Wright (concerning a manuscript review)

Jihong Xiao; Tong Xin (concerning a translation of "The Behavior of Law"); Xinyi Xu; Kun Yang; Peter C. Yeager; Marvin Yelles (Academic Press); Barbara Yngvesson; Sung Won Yoon; Frances K. Zemans; Eric Zuesse

Some correspondence will be between people not including Donald Black, if the correspondence is still on the topic or related to the organization. Some folders may contain supplemental, non-correspondence material to the correspondence. Correspondence also may contain information that has a separate subseries or is referenced elsewhere, if that information better fit within the flow of conversation in the main correspondence. Be sure to cross reference with other files for more potential information. Organized alphabetically.

Miscellaneous material pertaining to Academic Press

For the 1992 ASA meeting

For the 1992 ASA meeting

Concerning Academic Press; publishing of Black's "The Behavior of Law"

University academic (sociology) departments, all universities

University academic (sociology) departments, all universities

Book by Barbara Harrell-Bond and Sandra Burman

Undated papers filed at beginning of folder; includes manuscript reviews themselves along with correspondence

Includes manuscript reviews themselves along with correspondence

Organizations and topical correspondence with too few papers to get their own folders, such as American Society of Criminology January 16 1991- May 2 1991; Conference in honor of Al Reiss; Frank Romo's dissertation; Law & Society Conference; Publishing agreement

Includes table of contents and notes to contributors

Also known as The Behavior of Courts

Alphabetically arranged

Black. 2004 Reviews of Donald Black Theories. "Quantifying Law in Police-Citizen Encounters David A. Klinger;" "Law and Social Control in China: An Application of Black's Thesis" Robert M. Regoli; "Mobilization of Authority: College Dormitory Student Reaction to Crime and Deviance—An Empirical Assessment of Donald Black's General Theory of Law;" "Empirical Support for Unequal Effects of Multiple Control: A Different Examination of Donald Black's Work" Bonnie Berry. 1984-1991

"Social Status and Sentences of Female Offenders" Candace Kruttschnitt; "A Multivariate Analysis of the Behaviour of Law" Janet Chan; "Legal and Non-Legal Factors in Juvenile Justice Dispositions" William G. Staples; "Science and Politics in the Sociology of Law: A Reply to Alan Hunt"; "Why Law Does Not Behave- Critical and Constructive Reflections on the Social Scientific Perception of the Social Significance of Law" Franz von Benda-Beckman

"Relational Distance, Relational Status and Legal Sanctions: A Test of Two Competing Hypotheses" Dale Dannefer; "Light Up or Butt Out: An Assessment of Antismoking Laws in the United States" W. Timothy Austin and Samuel W. Garner; "An Analysis of 'The Behavior of Law': Appellate Litigation Variation Over Trial and Jurisdiction" James W. Meeker; "An Analysis of 'The Behavior of Law': Effects of Organization on Litigation" James W. Meeker; "Empirical Verification of Black's 'The Behavior of Law" John Braithwaite and David Biles; "A Test of Black's Theory of the Behavior of Law" Larry A Hembroff; "Donald Black's So-Called Theory of So-Called Law" David F. Greenberg; "Revenge and the Social Control System: Theory and Empirical Correlates" Norman W. Storer; "The Anthropology of Law Introduction" Vivian J. Rohrl; "A Chippewa Trouble-Case: Toward an Expanded Model of Conflict Resolution" Vivian J. Rohrl; "Toward a Structural Perspective on Gender Bias in the Juvenile Court" William G. Staples.

Authors include Setsuo Miyazawa ("Social Movements and Contemporary Rights in Japan: Relative Success Factors in the Field of Environmental Law", J. Langley Miller, Peter H. Rossi, Jon E. Simpson ("Attributes of Just Punishments: An Empirical Test of Black's Theory of Law"), Daniel P. Doyle, David F. Luckenbill ("Mobilizing Law in Response to Collective Problems: A Test of Black's Theory of Law, Kathleen J. Ferraro ("Policing Woman Battering")

Program notes. Donald Black,"The Law-like Nature of Violence" 1994 October 13-14; Donald Black, "Violence and Aggression in Contemporary Society"1995 November 6-7. These lectures not included.

Maureen Mileski was dating Donald Black at this time and her lecture notes were based on his theories while he was teaching at Yale

Biographical / historical:

Donald Black was a world renowned theoretical sociologist and University Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences at the University of Virginia from 1985-2016. Born in 1941, he received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University in 1963, his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1965, and his PhD in sociology from Michigan University in 1968. Before coming to the University of Virginia in 1985, he was at both Yale University as a post-doctoral Russell Sage Fellow from 1968-1970, and then taught at Harvard University in their Sociology Department and Law School. In 1989 he attained the position as a University Professor, allowing him to teach in any department or school at the University including the Law School. From 1986-1989 he also served as the Department Chair of Sociology.

Black was known for his study of the sociology of ideas and scienticity (the degree to which ideas are testable, valid, and original). His most important early work included "The Behavior of Law" (Emerald Publishing 1976), which advanced what is still the only general sociological theory of law--"behavior of law"—which is what people do in the name of law, including illegal acts as a way to manage conflict and assert grievances, particularly when legal protections are perceived as failing. He created the theory of "Pure Sociology" which explains social life by studying deviant behavior as a system of social control rather than a set of rules. It is different from psychology because it makes no presumptions about an individuals experience. His work, particularly "Crime as Social Control"(American Sociological Review 1983), argues that crime can be a form of "self-help" to achieve justice, and it explains the variation in legal responses (like arrests) through social structures such as too much intimacy or lack of intimacy related to conflicts. Unlike most sociologists, he rejected psychological approaches and drew on anthropological and historical materials and modern data, allowing him to explain variation in social behavior in all societies and across time. He extended his work to the larger universe of conflict management—including violence, avoidance, and toleration—which culminated in his major midcareer work, "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong" (Academic Press 1993). Black broke still more fresh ground with a third major opus, "Moral Time" (Oxford University Press 2011), which presented a radically new general and testable theory of the causes of conflict. He authored a series of brilliant publications, including the "The Manners and Customs of the Police" (Academic Press 1981), "Sociological Justice' (Oxford University Press 1993), "The Geometry of Terrorism" in Sociological Theory (2004), and "The Epistemology of Pure Sociology".

He was a fellow of the American Society of Criminology and the American Anthropological Association. In 2013, he received the Law and Society Association Harry Kalven Jr. Prize for outstanding scholarship. He received several awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA) and its Sections. In 1994, he received both the ASA Theory Section's Theory Prize and the Section on the Sociology of Law's Distinguished Book Award, for "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong". He was also the recipient of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Law's Distinguished Article Award in 1997 for "The Epistemology of Pure Sociology" (Law & Social Inquiry 1995) and the recipient of the ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity inaugural Outstanding Published Book Award in 2012 for "Moral Time". In addition, several of his books have been translated into other languages. He was invited to lecture in numerous countries abroad, including Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland, France, Scotland, England, Poland, and Japan. He was on the editorial board for scholarly journals and edited his own series on "Studies on Law and Social Control" for Oxford Press.

Black was also a charismatic teacher who influenced many students of sociology. According to Mark Cooney, "His classes were an intellectual treat for he saw teaching as an opportunity to develop new ideas." Beyond the classroom, he was an inspiring mentor ready to offer advice and encouragement, especially to younger scholars. He retired from the University of Virginia in 2016 and died in January 2024.

The collection also includes the papers of Roberta Senechal de la Roche, (spouse of Donald Black) and an American historian, sociologist, retired professor from Washington and Lee University, and poet born in western Maine and raised in upstate New York. She graduated from the University of Southern Maine and the University of Virginia, where she received a doctoral degree in history. As a historian and sociologist, she specialized in studying theory on collective violence and social history. Her first major publication, originally titled "The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot", was later renamed "In Lincoln's Shadow: The Springfield Race Riot of 1908". The book examines the two-day race riot in Springfield, Illinois, which resulted in the displacement of thousands of Black residents, destruction of their businesses and homes, and brutal killings of two African Americans. Her work won two distinguished prizes, cementing her contribution to the field. She taught courses on the American gilded age, the history of violence in America, the history of women in America, and a seminar on modern terrorism.

Roberta was inspired by the sociological approach in "Salem Possessed", which used detailed social profiles to uncover community conflicts during the Salem Witch Trials. As a graduate student at the University of Virginia, she sought a similarly researchable topic in the field of collective violence. She chose the Springfield riot for its historical significance as Abraham Lincoln's hometown and its underexplored status in academic literature. Over eight years, she meticulously analyzed the dynamics of the riot, profiling both the perpetrators and victims and uncovering patterns that challenged prevailing social strain theories of violence. Her long standing interest is in non-state unilateral collective violence, such as rioting, lynching, terrorism, and vigilantism.

She is also a poet of Miꞌkmaq and French- Canadian descent. Her poems have appeared in the Colorado Review; Vallum; Glass: A Journal of Poetry; Yemassee, Blue Mountain Review, Sequestrum, and Cold Mountain Review, among others. She has two prize-winning chapbooks: Blind Flowers (Arcadia Press) and After Eden (Heartland Review Press, 2019). A third chapbook, Winter Light, and her first book, Going Fast (2019) are published by David Robert Books.

Sources: Cooney, Mark. "Donald Black" Member News & Notes. American Sociological Association, May 2024. https://www.asanet.org/member-news-notes-may-2024/#obituary

Roberta Senechal de la Roche's website. https://www.wlu.edu/profile/senechal-roberta

Acquisition information:
The Donald Black papers were given by Donald Black and Roberta Senechal de la Roche to the University of Virginia Library in several installments and have all been interfiled as one collection except for the most recent additions (2018-2024) (Boxes 39-55) which have been added as new series at the end of the collection. The dates of individual gifts include July 20, 2010 and December 28, 2010; April 27, 2011, May 4, 20, and 23, 2011, June 3, 10, and 14, 2011, July 8 and 15, 2011; October 7, 2011; November 8, 2012; April 22 and August 27, 2013; June 1 and 6, 2016. The recent additions are September 23, 2018; June 20, 2019; December 3, 2020; and October 11, 2024.
Processing information:

The Donald Black papers were received in increments over a period of years and have been interfiled except for the most recent additions which have been added as a series at the end.

Arrangement:

Series I is on academic writings from Black and other scholars. It is split between two Sub-Series: Sub-Series A is on works either solely by Black, or works collaborated on by Black and other scholars, and Sub-Series B contains work solely by other scholars. Series I runs from box 1-17. Series II contains files and papers from Black's involvement in the professional and academic worlds of sociology and universities. Series II runs from box 17-21. Series III pertains to Donald Black's personal life. Series III runs from box 21-25. Series IV contains correspondence with organizations and correspondence on certain topics. Series IV runs from box 25-36. Series V contains restricted items, and is the only series in box 37. Box 38 houses a sociology t-shirt. The recent additions (boxes 39-55) to this collection are in a new series titled Additions and have subseries that are similar to the original arrangement. Subseries 1. Academic Writings. Subseries 2. Professional and University Involvement. Series 3.Personal papers and materials Series 4.Correspondence. Series 5.Roberta Senechal de la Roche papers

Some folders contain groupings of files that remain as-is from their arrangement by Black, while others contain files compounded into a more comprehensive grouping from different sources. Some items may be cross referenced under different series. For example, there is correspondence with Stanley Holowitz under both his personal file as well as under the topical files on correspondence with Academic Press.

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