Description:
Little Liberia was born out of the intersection of Black spaces and borderland places, and its story, in Hooton's deft telling, reveals the crucial role of that intersection in the history of race, borderlands, immigration, social movements, and White supremacy in the United States and Mexico.
Brief description:
Laura Hooton is Assistant Professor of History at New Mexico State University and co-author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity, Second Edition.
Review Quotes:
"The fascinating story of the formation of a transnational Black agricultural community in Mexico created to confront white supremacy throughout the hemisphere. Emboldened by their economic success and frustrated by the obstacles of racist violence in the U.S., Black elites from Los Angeles, and then later northeast Oklahoma, created the polycultural social movement that shaped Little Liberia in Baja California."--George Sánchez, author of Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy