Candice Robinson is the Next Speaker in the Anne and Edgar Basse Jr. Author Talk Series Robinson will deliver a lecture titled “The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach” on campus on Feb. 11.
Candice Robinson, assistant professor of sociology and DeLaney Center Faculty Scholar, will deliver a lecture on “The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach” at Washington and Lee University at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 in the Harte Center Gallery inside Leyburn Library. The talk is free and open to the public.
The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the DeLaney Center and the University Library and is part of the University Library’s Anne and Edgar Basse Jr. Author Talk series, which invites W&L faculty to showcase their scholarship to the campus community. The Basse series is made possible by the Anne W. and Edgar A. Basse Jr. (’39) Endowment, which was created in 1988 to support the varied activities of the University Library Special Collections & Archives.
In her talk, Robinson will share highlights from her recent book “The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach” (2024), which she co-authored alongside four other Black women sociologists: Aaryn L. Green, Maretta Darnell McDonald, Shantee Rosado and Veronica A. Newton. The book creatively engages with the topics of Black and Latinx femininity, motherhood, sexuality, racial and ethnic identity, and political engagement through the lens of hip-hop artist Cardi B. The authors explore experiences from Cardi’s own life and work coupled with foundational histories of Black sociology, Black feminism, and institutional inequalities along the lines of race, class and gender.
“I am incredibly excited to finally have the opportunity to discuss ‘The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Perspective’ at W&L,” Robinson said. “In representing the work that my co-authors and I conducted, I will bring forth ideas around Black women’s knowledge production and experiences to the areas of theory, race and ethnicity, media, motherhood and politics. I hope the presentation and my work broadly give people the skills to see themselves in someone like Cardi B or, at minimum, better understand the experiences of people like her, whether they’re studying sociology and anthropology, poverty studies and Africana studies, or neuroscience, business and law.”
Robinson’s research is motivated by a commitment to understanding the often overlooked and discredited contributions of Black Americans to American society in the areas of civic engagement, social movements and theory, with an emphasis on members of the Black middle class and Black elite. Her work has been published in a variety of journals and edited volumes, and her current solo authored book project explores the intersections of race and class through the longstanding civil rights organization, the National Urban League.
Robinson is in her first year as a faculty member at W&L. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Hampton University, her master’s degree from the University of Iowa, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh.
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