Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS 134 Fashioning Latinidades

Explores fashion and dress within Latinx and Latin American communities, highlighting their histories, cultures, and creative practices. Students investigate how style expresses identity, politics, cross-cultural exchange, conflict, and artistic innovation. By questioning Eurocentric perspectives, the course offers an expansive view of Latinidades, design, and the body, showing how dress reflects personal, social, and cultural meaning.

Credits

5

General Education Code

IM

Instructor

Edward Salazar