Linda Carty (sociologist)

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

Carty received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1989. 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. 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.

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.
• "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.
• "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.)