Linda Carty (sociologist)
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Dr Linda Carty is a sociologist, activist, anti-racist feminist and educator of Caribbean heritage from Canada . She is also an author and essayist. She has also made contributions on environmental justice issues in Onondaga County in Ms Magazine and presented her work in several conferences. Her work concentrates on feminist anti-racist ideology and marxist ideology. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1989. Pan African Studies at Syracuse University Newsletter 2007-2008 ‘AAS Faculty - Linda Carty’ - Department of African American Studies Pan African Studies at Syracuse University 2007-2008 p 21She 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/AID work and Black Women's labor struggles in Canada, the U.S, and the Caribbean. Pan African Studies at Syracuse University Newsletter 2007-2008 ‘AAS Faculty - Linda Carty’ - Department of African American Studies Pan African Studies at Syracuse University 2007-2008 p 21
Department of African American Studies - Syracuse University
The Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University is a leading Africana studies department in the United States. It is a prominent independent department at Syracuse University that has had a long history of activism and scholarship in Black and Pan African Studies...
. 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
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is the public policy school of Syracuse University...
at Syracuse.
She has been involved in HIV/AID work and Black Women's labor struggles in Canada, the U.S, and the Caribbean. Pan African Studies at Syracuse University Newsletter 2007-2008 ‘AAS Faculty - Linda Carty’ - Department of African American Studies Pan African Studies at Syracuse University 2007-2008 p 21
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 CooperAfua CooperAfua Cooper is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian, author and dub poet.-Biography:Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, Cooper grew up in Kingston, Jamaica and migrated to Toronto in 1980. She holds a Ph.D. in African-Canadian history with specialties in slavery and abolition...
, 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 BannerjiHimani BannerjiHimani Bannerji is a Bengali–Canadian writer and academic, teaching in the Department of Sociology at York University, Canada. She is also known for her activist work and poetry. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from Viswa-Bharati University and Jadavpur University respectively, and her...
, Kari Dehli, et al.)