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Leith Mullings
Born
Leith Patricia Mullings

(1945-04-08)April 8, 1945
Mandeville, Jamaica
DiedDecember 13, 2020(2020-12-13) (aged 75)
New York City, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materQueens College, Cornell University, University of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology
InstitutionsCUNY Graduate Center

Leith Patricia Mullings (April 8, 1945 – December 13, 2020)[1] was a Jamaican-born author, anthropologist and professor. She was president of the American Anthropological Association[2] from 2011–2013, and was a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[3] Mullings was involved in organizing for progressive social justice, racial equality and economic justice as one of the founding members of the Black Radical Congress[4] and in her role as President of the AAA.[5] Under her leadership, the American Anthropological Association took up the issue of academic labor rights.[6]

Her research and writing focused on structures of inequality and resistance to them. Her research began in Africa and she wrote about traditional medicine and religion in postcolonial Ghana, as well as about women’s roles in Africa. In the U.S. her work centered on urban communities. She was recognized for this work by the Society for the Anthropology of North America, which awarded her the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America in 1997.[7] Mullings was working on an ethnohistory of the African Burial Ground in New York City at the time of her death.[8][9]

Early Life and Education

Both of Leith Mullings' parents are from Jamaica where she was one of triplets born April 8, 1945.[10] After her birth her parents moved to New York City while she stayed in Jamaica and was raised by her grandmother until the age of three. Her father Hubert W. Mulling was among the first Black licensed Certified Public Accountant in New York City. Her mother, Lilieth H. Mullings was the head intensive care nurse at Queens Hospital in New York.[11][12]

In 1961 Mullings studied nursing at New York Queens College (CUNY) where she finished a five year program with a bachelor of science in nursing from Cornell University. In 1970, Mullings earned a Master of Arts and in 1975 a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. [12][13]

Publications

  • 1984 Therapy, Ideology and Social Change: Mental Healing in Urban Ghana, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
  • 1987 Cities of the United States: Studies in Urban Anthropology, editor, New York: Columbia University Press.
  • 1997 On Our Own Terms: Race, Class and Gender in the Lives of African American Women, New York: Routledge.
  • 2001 Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (with Alaka Wali).
  • 2002 Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle, London: Phaidon Press. Awarded a Krazna-Krausz Foundation Book Prize (with Manning Marable).
  • 2009 Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An Anthology of African American Social and Political Thought from Slavery to the Present, Second Edition, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (co-edited with Manning Marable).

References

  1. ^ "Remembering Distinguished Professor Leith Mullings, Pioneering Anthropologist Committed to Social Justice". www.gc.cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-12-23. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  2. ^ "From the President". American Anthropological Association. Archived from the original on 2008-02-28.
  3. ^ "CUNY Graduate Center Faculty Listing". Retrieved 2014-01-02.
  4. ^ BRC. "Social Justice Movement Wiki". Columbia University. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  5. ^ "AAA President Reflects on Race". Savage Minds.
  6. ^ "Report on AAA adjunct rights resolution". Savage Minds.
  7. ^ "Society for the Anthropology of North America Distinguished Achievement Prize". Archived from the original on 2013-11-27. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
  8. ^ Babers, Myeshia (18 November 2019). "Leith P. Mullings (1945-2020)". Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  9. ^ "Leith Mullings, 1945-2020: Anthropologist Behind the Sojourner Syndrome". 14 December 2020.
  10. ^ Babers, Myeshia (2019-11-18). "Leith P. Mullings (1945-2020) •". Retrieved 2023-04-16.
  11. ^ Baker, Lee D. (2021-12). "Leith P. Mullings (1945–2020)". American Anthropologist. 123 (4): 983–987. doi:10.1111/aman.13664. ISSN 0002-7294. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ a b "LEITH MULLINGS Obituary (2021) - New York, NY - New York Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
  13. ^ Horton, Chelsea (2021-02-01). "Leith Mullings". Anthropology News. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
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