Beyonce and African Spirit Justice

The official title of this class is “Unravelling the Black Girl Magic in Lemonade: An Introduction to African Spirit Religions, Black Spirit Themes and the Spiritual Social Justice Messages in Beyonce’s Visual Album.” In the context of this course, “Black Girl Magic” will represent many of the metaphoric ways that black women are “magical.” However, the emphasis on “magic” here is related to the African Spirit Religions and Black Spirit themes represented throughout Beyonce’s visual album “Lemonade.” Students will be asked to engage various sources of learning that will provide an intro level knowledge of African Spirit religions, African Spirit Deities and Black Spirit themes and to consider the ways that these religions have been or could be strategic and intentional conduits for the black woman’s reality of self-healing, self-actualizing, radical self-love in an Anti-Black oppressive system, and for manifesting veritable social justice realities within her community, historically and in the future. This is a 3 unit Hybrid/Residential class.