Linda Carty (sociologist)

Dr Linda Carty is a sociologist, activist, feminist and educator from Canada .^[1] She is also an author and essayist. She has also made contributions on environmental justice issues in Onondaga County in Ms Magazine.^[2] She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1989. ^[3]She currently teaches at Syracuse university in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse university. She previously served as the Chair for this department^[4]. She is also a professor of Sociology with the Maxwell school of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse. She has been involved in HIV/AID work and Black Women's labor struggles in Canada, the U.S, and the Caribbean.^[5]

Published Works

• Not a Nanny: A Gendered, Transnational Analysis of Caribbean Domestic Workers in New York City (in) Decolonizing the Academy: Diaspora Theory and African New-World Studies- 2003^[6]
• Gender Relations at the University of the West Indies: The More Things Change the More they Remain the Same (in) UWI, You/We Journal, Vol.8- 2002^[6]
• The Discourse of Empire and the Social Construction of Gender, (in) Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought- 2000
• We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up': Essays in African Canadian Women's History - 1994 ( Co-authored with Afua Cooper, Peggy Bristow, Dionne Brand et al.)
• And Still We Rise: Feminist Political Mobilizing in Contemporary Canada (Editor) - 1993, ISBN 9780889611771.
• Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggles - 1992 by Linda Carty (co-authored with Susan Heald, Himani Bannerji, Kari Dehli, et al.)

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