Linda Carty (sociologist)

Dr Linda Carty is a sociologist, activist, feminist and educator from Canada .^[1] She is also an author and essayist and has also made contributions on environmental justice issues in Onondaga County in Ms Magazine.^[2]

Carty 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/AIDS 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 (ed.), 1993, ISBN 978-0-88961-177-1.
• 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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