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| Published on www.chiqforher.com on February 3, 2012. |
From her early beginnings with Destiny’s Child’s first number onehit, “Bills, Bills, Bills,” to the solo self-proclaimed diva’s Grammy award-winning, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring on It),” Beyonce has been extremely influential in pop culture. So influential, that the singer and songwriter is now being studied in the college classroom.
Kevin
Allred, an instructor in Women and Gender Studies department at Rutgers
University, encouraged his students to think critically about the influence
Beyonce has on race, gender, and sexual politics.
“I
think studying pop culture is so important,” said Allred. “It’s everywhere.”
Allred
said his class, “Politicizing Beyonce,” takes a deeper look into the way
that Beyonce uses her voice to send subtle suggestive messages that influence
society.
