Rutgers University Offering Class on Beyonce (Details Inside)

Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ is offering a new class called, “Feminist Perspectives: Politicizing Beyoncé,” which will use race, gender, and sexual politics to explore the star’s career. The course will be taught by PhD student Kevin Allred, who teaches in the school’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

Allred uses Beyonce videos and lyrics alongside readings from famous Black feminists, writings of bell hooks, Alice Walker, and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. He believes that students should be more critical about pop culture, saying “It’s important to shift students away from simply being consumers of media toward thinking more critically about what they’re engaging on a regular basis.”

Source: bossip.com