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Penn History Presents: 'Thinking with the Past'

| Parkway Central Library, Rooms 405, 406, and 407, 1901 Vine Street, 19103

The University of Pennsylvania History Department Presents:
“Thinking with the Past”

Professor Tamara Walker, University of Pennsylvania
Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Peru

DATE: Tuesday, April 21, 2015
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Parkway Central Library, Room 108, 1901 Vine Street, 19103

This lecture explores the role of clothing in the ethnically-diverse, urban slaveholding society of Peru.  It specifically considers the ways that slaves and free blacks dressed to express their identities, negotiate their status, and challenge the dominant norms.

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