AP/HIST 3835 3.0 (WINTER): Dressing Up: Fashion, Identity and Resistance in Twentieth Century North America

AP/HIST 3835 3.00

Dressing Up: Fashion, Identity and Resistance in Twentieth Century North America

This course explores how fashion, costumes and uniforms emerged as sites of identity formation and resistance to social norms in twentieth century North America. The course explores social movements such as early twentieth-century women’s dress reform, the Zoot-suit riots of the 1940s, “hippies” and 1960s counter-culture, drag performances as sites of queer and trans activism, and hip-hop fashion as anti-racist activism.