On the first day of “Politicizing Beyoncé,” a Spring semester course at Rutgers, 32 young women and men sat in their desks, texting behind a Coach bag or catching up on Vlad TV’s rap posts on a laptop. It was February. I was dressed in jeans, Converse, and a giant sweatshirt, going for undergraduate realness, and here on a mission: to observe my fellow classmates and figure out exactly how one can analyze a living, breathing pop star while she’s still out here pop star’ing.Read more...