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How Did Beyoncé Discuss Inequality?

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https://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/beyonce-lemonade-review-new-orleans-album-tidal

     This picture is from Lemonade involving New Orleans and the racial injustice of the police.

     Beyoncé uses visual and lyrical references to show racial inequality throughout the album. She uses her appearance and the settings of different locations to include examples of racial inequality.

     She uses multiple locations from the city of New Orleans. This is one of multiple places where people believe racial injustice was happening in the police force. African Americans were being gunned down by police and being treated unlawfully. Beyoncé uses the lyrics to discuss her point and uses visuals to better explain it.

     The article,” Beyoncé’s L e m o n a d e , Avant-Garde Aesthetics, and Music Video: “The Past and the Future Merge to Meet Us Here” says that,” Lemonade develops historical strands about Africa, the Middle Passage, slavery, reconstruction, lynching, neo­liberalism and the disinvestment of black neighborhoods at the beginning of the 1970s, Hurricane Katrina, and the police murders of African­ Americans” ( Vernallis 1,2). This quote provides examples of the ways Beyoncé discussed inequality in Lemonade. The quote gives multiple well-known examples of times when inequality occurred. 

     In the article, ” The Lemonade Effect” it says that, “during which she appeared with dancers in Black Panther–inspired garb who formed a giant X and raised their fists, Black Power–style—the singer embraced stickier subject matter, wading into the Black Lives Matter movement, police shootings of unarmed black men (the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and Eric Garner appear in the video for “Freedom,” Lemonade’s galvanizing, modern-day Negro spiritual), and other subjects” (McCorvey 69). This is another example of how Beyoncé discussed inequality and she was showing her stance on the whole situation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vernallis, Carol. Film Criticism. Sep2016, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p1-5. 5p. 5 Color Photographs. DOI: 10.3998/fc.13761232.0040.315.

McCorvey, J. J. Fast Company. Jul/Aug2016, Issue 207, p64-104. 8p. 2 Color Photographs.