{"product_id":"little-liberia-volume-18-a-dream-of-black-freedom-in-the-us-mexico-borderlands-hardback-9780806196961","title":"Little Liberia Volume 18; A Dream of Black Freedom in the US-Mexico Borderlands (Hardback) 9780806196961","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLittle Liberia Volume 18\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Dream of Black Freedom in the US-Mexico Borderlands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaura Hooton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806196961\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, 8 Illustrations, black and white - 3 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.638 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A much-needed step towards understanding the Southwest, the borderlands, and the Pacific as a Black geography.\"—Anthony R. Jerry, author of \u003ci\u003eBlackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLittle Liberia\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the extent to which Black people innovated in times of tumult and racial nadir. It is an important story integrating borderlands studies and the history of the North American West, transcending both fields.\"—Timothy E. Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eBlackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the early twentieth century, African Americans created an agricultural community in northern Baja California, Mexico, which they called Little Liberia. As a transborder activist community, the people of Little Liberia sought to counter the forces of White supremacy in North America, primarily by building a stable financial and political foundation for African Americans. The story of this community, told in full for the first time in \u003ci\u003eLittle Liberia: A Dream of Black Freedom in the US-Mexico Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e, is one of Black innovation and cross-cultural enterprise at a time of racial persecution and political turbulence—a little known but instructive chapter in the intersecting history of Black America and the borderlands of the Southwest. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Organized by African American businessmen chiefly from California and Oklahoma, Little Liberia began as the Lower California Mexican Land Development Company, which strove to build African American economic power through agricultural production outside the nation's borders. Its sister organization, the International Community Welfare League, dedicated itself to fighting the spread of White supremacy by unifying African Americans, indigenous peoples, and people of Mexican descent. Laura Hooton describes how these entities jointly navigated US-Mexico politics during World War I and the Mexican Revolution, including issues of land ownership, immigration, race and ethnicity, and imperialism and colonialism. Her book traces the community's shifting business focus, geographic scope, and membership over its eleven-year history—its formation in Los Angeles, recruitment in Oklahoma after the Tulsa Race Massacre, expansion of relations with Mexican politicians, and highly public collapse. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551759429912,"sku":"9780806196961","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/little-liberia-volume-18-a-dream-of-black-freedom-in-the-us-mexico-borderlands-hardback-9780806196961","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}