Little Liberia: A Dream of Black Freedom in the US-Mexico Borderlands. 2026. Published by University of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover with dust jacket. By Laura Hooten. Race and Culture in the American West Series. Condition. brand new.
In 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 Little Liberia: A Dream of Black Freedom in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 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.
