Leith Mullings

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Leith Mullings (born April 8, 1945 ) is an American anthropologist . She teaches as Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Life

Leith Mullings was the oldest of five children from Hubert and Lillieth Mullings († 1987). She studied at Queens College, City University of New York and at the University of Chicago , where she received her Masters and in 1975 her Ph.D. received in anthropology . Mullings has now taught at Yale University and Columbia University . From 1981 she worked at the City College of the City University of New York. In 1988 she moved to the Graduate Center and was appointed professor. Her four siblings also embarked on an academic career.

She has published several books and is co-author of several books by her husband, the historian Manning Marable .

Mulling was president of the American Anthropological Association from 2011 to 2013 .

Publications (selection)

as an author
  • Therapy, Ideology and Social Change. Mental Healing in Urban Ghana. University Press, Berkeley, Calif. 1984, ISBN 0-520-04712-5 .
  • Cities of the United States. Studies in Urban Anthropology. University Press, New York 1987, ISBN 0-231-50000-3 .
  • On Our Own Terms. Race, Class and Gender in the Lives of African American Women. Routledge, New York 1997, ISBN 0-415-91285-7 .
  • Stress and Resilience. The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem. Kluwer Academic Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-306-46638-4 (together with Alaka Wali).
  • Freedom. A Photographic History of the African American Struggle. Phaidon Press, London 2005, ISBN 0-7148-4517-5 (together with Manning Marable; illustrated by Sophie Spencer-Wood).
as editor
  • Let Nobody Turn Us Around. Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal; an African American Anthology. 2nd Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, NY 2000, ISBN 0-7425-6056-2 (with Manning Marable).
  • Gender, Race, Class and Health. Intersectional Approaches. Jossey-Brass Publ., San Francisco 2006, ISBN 0-7879-7663-6 (with Amy Schulz).
  • New Social Movements in the African Diaspora. Challenging Global Apartheid. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-230-62139-8 (with Manning Marable).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Presidents of the American Anthropological Association , American Anthropological Association website
personal data
SURNAME Mullings, Leith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mullings, Leith P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1945