A Georgia university is offering a college course in OutKast studies

By William Hughes | January 7, 2017 | 12:19am

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A professor at Georgia’s Armstrong State University has announced that she’s teaching a course in the history and ideas behind influential hip-hop group OutKast. Professor Regina Bradley’s “OutKast And The Rise Of The Hip-Hop South” will explore the ways André 3000 and Big Boi’s ideas about “the South and southernness“ have seeped into popular culture, while also quizzing students with hard-hitting questions like, “What’s cooler than being cool?” (A: “Ice cold.”)

According to Fader, Bradley has a long history of integrating pop culture into her explorations of the history of the South. “My areas of interest are African-American literature and popular culture,” she said. “I try to find ways to connect those…Often, students get most of their information, their outlook from how they engage in popular culture.”