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Exposes Inner Lives of Black Women FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.tutorialoutlet.com How Beyonce's 'Lemonade' Exposes Inner Lives of Black Women History-reclaiming visual album oﬀers new tools to see and be seen Lemonade continues Beyoncé Knowles' longstanding engagement with black Southern regionalism. The video album writes black women back into national, regional and diasporic histories by making them the progenitors and rightful inheritors of the Southern gothic tradition. Beyond "strong" and "magic," Lemonade asserts that black women are alchemists and metaphysicians who are at once of the past, present and future, changing and healing the physical, chemical and spiritual world around them. Rihanna uses her "glitter to make [your shit] gold," Erykah Badu compels men to "change jobs and change gods" and Janelle Monáe's Cindi Mayweather is secretly leading the Android Revolution. But Beyoncé accounts for the method behind black women's alchemy. Traversing genre and space, she fundamentally transforms the Southern platitude about what one should do when life hands her lemons. Part of black women's magic, born of necessity, has been the ability to dissemble: to perform an outward forthrightness while protecting our inner, private lives and obscuring our full selves. We have drawn on this culture of dissemblance, as Northwestern University historian Darlene Clark Hine has called it, to deflect physical and discursive violence, cultivating rich inner lives that play out behind the enduring walls of Jim Crow.