LACS 80.21 Rita Moreno: Identity, Performance, Stardom
Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer whose career has spanned the 20th and 21st centuries. She has worked across film, television, and theater, and most famously, starred in West Side Story (1961) for which she won an Academy Award, the first Latina to do so. The course will explore her life and career as a means of exploring broader contexts of Latinx history and culture.