Little Liberia : a dream of Black freedom in the US-Mexico borderlands / Laura Hooton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hooton, Laura, 1987- Author.

Series:

Race and culture in the American West ; v. 18.

Race and culture in the American West ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Mexico--Baja California (State)--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

xii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Dream of Black freedom in the US-Mexico borderlands

Dream of Black freedom in the United States-Mexico borderlands

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2026]

Summary:

"A borderlands account of the African American colony Little Liberia (1919-1928) in Baja California"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Before 1921 : Black freedoms and the California borderlands

2 After 1921 : expansion, Oklahoma, and polycultural promises

Curing "a cancer growth on the international tissue" : Little Liberia's transnational anti-white supremacist organizing

"Be something, have something, do something" : Black capital in the borderlands

"The whole proposition is going to blow up" : the fall of Little Liberia

100 years after Little Liberia.

Notes:

"Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University" -- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806196961

0806196963

OCLC:

1591245292