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Yale University is introducing a course focused on Beyonce’s influence on Black feminist thought and American culture.
According to Yale Daily News, starting Spring 2025, a new course titled “Beyonce Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music”, will begin in Humanities and Arts Department.
The class will be taught by writer and Professor of African American Studies and Music, Daphne Brooks. Yale says students taking the class will “examine Beyonce’s artistic work from 2013 to 2024 as a lens to study Black history, intellectual though and performance.”
“The course primarily centers around Beyonce’s sonic, fashion and visual media following her 2013 self-titled album all the way through 2024’s “Cowboy Carter.” It also delves into the multifarious Black female experience in media and politics”, said Yale Daily News.
“In terms of projects, students will participate in screenings of her visual albums, work with archives in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and engage with public humanities projects designed to study Beyonce’s physical impact on the Black community.”
Yale further explained that the students taking the course will be encouraged to create playlists connecting Beyonce’s music to those of her influences.
Students of this course will engage in discussions surrounding readings from scholars such as Hortense Spillers, the Combahee River Collective, Cedric Robinson and Karl Hagstrom Miller.
Speaking to Yale Daily News, Brooks said, “I would hope that no matter what discipline you are pursuing in liberal arts at Yale, by looking at culture through Beyonce, it can invite us to think about the extent to which art can articulate the world we live in and nourish our spirits and give us the space to imagine better worlds and the ethics of freedom.”
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