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Leith Mullings is an author, anthropologist and professor. She was president of the American Anthropological Association〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=From the President )〕 from 2011–2013, and is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Anthropology/Faculty-Listing/Leith-Mullings )〕 Mullings has been involved in organizing for progressive social justice, racial equality and economic justice as one of the founding members of the Black Radical Congress and in her role as President of the AAA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AAA President Reflects on Race )〕 Under her leadership, the American Anthropological Association took up the issue of academic labor rights.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Report on AAA adjunct rights resolution )〕 Her research and writing have focused on structures of inequality and resistance to them. Her research began in Africa and she has written about traditional medicine and religion in postcolonial Ghana, as well as about women’s roles in Africa. In the U.S. her work has 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sananet.org/distinguishedachievement.php )〕 Mullings is currently working on an ethnohistory of the African Burial Ground in New York City. == Publications == *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). *2002 Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle, London: Phaidon Press. Awarded a Krazna-Krausz Foundation Book Prize (with Manning Marable). *2001 Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (with Alaka Wali). *1997 On Our Own Terms: Race, Class and Gender in the Lives of African American Women, New York: Routledge. *1987 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leith Mullings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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