Gwaltney, John Langston
GWALTNEY, John Langston
GWALTNEY, John Langston. American, b. 1928. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Race relations. Career: Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University, New York since 1971, now retired. Member, Resource Group, Project on the Handicapped, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C., since 1975. Assistant and Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, State University of New York, Cortland, 1967-71; Past Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee, on the Caste Disadvantaged, Cortland College, New York. Publications: The Thrice Shy: Cultural Accommodation to Blindness and Other Disasters in a Mexican Community, 1970; Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America, 1980, 2nd ed, 1993; The Dissenters: Voices from Contemporary America, 1986. Author of essays & articles. Address: Dept. of Anthropology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13210, U.S.A.