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Leith Mullings (1945-2020) was simultaneously a towering presence in anthropology and a foundation builder whose intellectual project radiates through dozens of scholarly careers.Permalink On twitter.com
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Leith Mullings was a fierce advocate for an antiracist anthropology, both as a chronicler of power and Black struggle in the USA and analyst of the promise of struggles around the world.On twitter.com
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For her students and for the larger anthropological scholarly community dedicated to challenging injustices of race, gender, and class, Leith Mullings provided a multipurpose intellectual support system for our intellectual and critical work.Permalink On twitter.com
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She was an invaluable mentor, a steward of the budding communities of eager scholars that gravitated to her classes, a keeper of the continuity of intellectual lineages and forms of practice on the issues she taught, an exemplar of socially relevant and innovative scholarship,Permalink On twitter.com
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and a mapmaker within the field who used her farsighted intellectual vision to recognize a new area of scholarship and her well-respected writing voice to draw attention to it, providing encouragement and an intellectual framework to those whose work will fit within that sphere.Permalink On twitter.com
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I was lucky enough to learn about multiculturalism, public anthropology, and race and racism from her, and to have her support, guidance, and probing questions as I developed my research.Permalink On twitter.com
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It was an unexpected pleasure to have her interests—always transnational—turn to Latin America, where she founded and work of a network of Observatories against Racial Discrimination in the Americas. rowman.com/ISBN/9781793615503/Black-and-Indigenous-Resistance-in-the-Americas-From-Multiculturalism-to-Racist-BacklashPermalink On twitter.com
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But frankly it's devastating to hear of her passing. To reckon without her relentless personal, political, and intellectual presence in this world.Permalink On twitter.com
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My last long conversation with her was in Lima, Peru, for the LASA conference. She was filled with celebration of the incredible possibilities implied by Black Lives Matter and a renewal of commitment to put her effort behind collective struggle. I counted on many more to come.Permalink On twitter.com