The University of Texas at San Antonio is to offer a course based on the sights and sounds of Beyonce‘s ‘Lemonade.’
Laced with imagery pulled from African history and folklore, ‘Lemonade’ is the second visual LP to be released by Beyonce with help from the director Kahlil Joseph and poet Warsan Shire.
Its creative ties to black feminism didn’t go unnoticed by Professor Kinitra Brooks who decided to build ‘Black Women, Beyoncé & Popular Culture’ for students at the college.
The class meets three times a week to explore the album’s references to Igbo’s Landing, the historical mass suicide of enslaved Africans and, in its own way, its relation to themes covered by the likes of Toni Morrison.
Brooks tells her students:
Studying race, gender, class and pop culture theory is incredibly fun…and incredibly hard. Do an internal check for your maturity and ability to handle such a self-directed course. There is no shame in deciding you are not ready.