MICA Art@Lunch: Tamara Walker in Baltimore Mar 21, 2012 12:30 PM

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Brought To You By: Maryland Institute College of ArtPhone: 410-225-2300Event Website: Click hereCost: FREE! Dates & Times:03/21/2012 :: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Tamara Walker, assistant professor in the Department of History at University of Pennsylvania, will talk about her book manuscript and doctoral dissertation titled Ladies and Gentlemen, Slaves and Citizens: Dressing the Part in Lima, 1723-1845. Her focus is the relationship between clothing and status in an ethnically diverse slaveholding society, with particular attention to the meanings given to dress and deportment both by subordinate members of the society and by those who presumed to control it. The project offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of history, drawing upon archival research, travel accounts, and iconographic evidence, as well as a rich body of comparative slavery scholarship and material culture studies. Using clothing as a tracer, it demonstrates the ways in which the legal, economic, and social restrictions imposed upon slaves and free castas (as the offspring of Europeans, Africans, and Indians were known) affected their access to material goods but could not prevent them from using such goods to display their own sense of identity and status.