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This article will be released in full online February 7, 2022. Eleanor Burke Leacock taught that transhistorical, universal male dominance is a myth, not a fact.
In December 1884, such important figures in England’s budding socialist movement as William Morris, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, E. Belfort Bax, and John L. Mahon, among others, broke with the Social Democratic Federation led by H. M. Hyndman and formed the Socialist League. One of the key disputes leading to the break arose in relation to Hyndman’s then scarcely concealed jingoism and strong support for the British Empire.
The immediate issue in this regard was the British government’s sending of General Charles Gordon to Khartoum in the Sudan, supposedly to evacuate civilians and troops after the Sudanese defeat in 1883 of the Egyptian expeditionary force, led by British General William Hicks. Imperial Britain had recently gained colonial control over Egypt, following the latter’s defeat in the Anglo-Egyptian War, and were then seeking to extend their rule to Sudan, which had for decades been subject to Egypt (at that time itself an imperial subject of the Ottoman Empire)
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Filed in In Memoriam, Uncategorized on December 18, 2020
Leith Mullings, a leading anthropologist who spent much of her career at the City University of New York, died on December 12. She was 75 years old and had suffered from cancer.
A native of Jamaica, Professor Mullings came to the United States at the age of 16 to study at Queens College of the City University of New York. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Cornell University. She went on to earn a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at the Univerity of Chicago.
Dr. Mullings began her academic career as a lecturer at Yale University. She was appointed an assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University in 1975 and was promoted to associate professor in 1981. Two years later, she joined the faculty at the City University of New York. There she eventually became a distinguished professor of anthropology at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.