Jezebel, a woman in the Christian bible recognized and criticized for her salacious eye and seductive mannerism. She was considered the most wicked woman in the Bible. Now, without insinuating that every woman in the music industry that wears skimpy clothing to seduce a certain audience is wicked. Take the one and only Beyoncé Knowles. Like Jezebel, Queen Bey plays the role of the sexy, confident, independent but married woman. Whom also proclaims to be a feminist? Feminism, which began in the late 19th century, was to establish and define equal roles and opportunities for women. Currently in the 21st century, the definition has been drastically altered by society now that women have equal, well ¦ pretty much everything in the government we live in. Although, Beyoncé's intentions are for the empowerment of not only black women but of every race, her revealing clothing and sexually suggestive lyrics cause an uproar as to what the pop ultra-star's message really is. An undergraduate class at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., taught by Kevin Allred uses the pop culture of today to discuss identity politics and black feminism. In desperation to understand gender, sexuality, race and class through "black music , they discovered that the ideology of the empowered black women has taken a toll on the styles and techniques of today's black female artists. Beyoncé's radical approach when portraying her race and femininity was more of a superficial fanfare beginning in her early years of solo stardom. Only concerning clubbing, physical appeal, and having her own money to spend while fighting off worthless men and every so often campaigning women's empowerment. Queen Bey's white man mad features seemed to contradict her black empowered movement. It seemed as if the ultra-star seduced the male gaze and crafted a degree of black female prestige but at the same time adopting the straight blonde hair of a Caucasian woman, model size zero figure that is stereotypically desired by the Caucasian woman while at the same time undermining that same white beauty by embracing the "bootylicious  natural curves of a black woman. It would be insolent to not credit the numerous influential Black women musicians who paved the way for Bey, such as: Janet Jackson, blues godmothers Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, folk singer Odetta and rock goddesses Betty Davis and Grace Jones. Each of them, including Beyoncé's sexy and contradic