In spring 2025, Yale University will offer a course called Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music. Daphne Brooks, a professor of African American studies, will teach students about Queen Bey’s contributions and their cultural impact. Yale University to offer new course on Beyoncé’s cultural impact in spring 2025! “Next semester, Daphne Brooks, professor of African American Studies and music, will teach a new class titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics… pic.twitter.com/9Nq4fFkUC0 — Beyoncé Press. (@beyoncepress) November 8, 2024 “[This class] seemed good to teach because [Beyoncé] is just so ripe for teaching at this moment in time,” Brooks said, the Yale Daily News reported. “The number of breakthroughs and innovations she’s executed and the way she’s interwoven history and politics and really granular engagements with Black cultural life into her performance aesthetics...
