Politicizing Beyoncé" is the groundbreaking interdisciplinary college course that attempts to think through contemporary U.S. society and its current racial, gender, class, and sexual politics using the music and career of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter alongside historical and contemporary black feminist texts. The course was created by Kevin Allred and first taught in 2010. It is currently being taught in Newark, NJ and New Brunswick, NJ.