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Since the University of Missouri announced it would be running a course on the friendship between Kanye West and Jay Z, it seems other American colleges are keen to get in the action. This week, a New Jersey university announced a course entitled "Politicizing Beyonce."
The course, which is being run by Rutgers University, uses the pop star's career to "explore American race, gender and sexual politics."
During the course, students will be asked to compare the singer's music videos and lyrics with works from the Black Feminist movement, including the works of The Color Purple writer Alice Walker, and the abolitionist Sojourner Truth.
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Kevin Allred, the lecturer at Rutgers University who will be running the class, said, "She certainly pushes boundaries... 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."
He added that the course will tackle issues like "the extent of Beyonce's control over her own aesthetic" and "whether her often half-naked body is empowered or stereotypical."
Though Beyonce has been reluctant to label herself a feminist in the past, saying, "That word can be very extreme", she recently penned an essay on the subject of gender equality, writing, "Humanity requires both men and women, and we are equally important and need one another. So why are we viewed as less than equal?" Amen.
