Dr. Laura Hooton

• Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, History with interdisciplinary emphasis in Black studies
• M.A., UC Santa Barbara, History
• B.A., UC San Diego, History

• United States history
• Civil rights and social movements
• United States race and ethnicity history
• U.S.-Mexico borderlands/North American borderlands
• United States immigration history
• African American history
• Latinx history
• Comparative race and ethnicity in the Americas
• Ethnic Studies

African American history, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, migration and immigration, social movements, ethnic studies, Black studies, Chicana/o studies, comparative race and ethnicity, US Southwest/American West, California History, Mexican History

• Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity, Revised Edition. Co-author with Paul Spickard and Francisco Beltrán (2023, Routledge)
• “Little Liberia, the African American Agricultural Colony in Baja California” in Farming across Borders: Transnational Agricultural History in the North American West, ed. Sterling Evans (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2017)
• “Black Angelenos with the ‘Courage to Do and Dare’: African American Community Organizers in Lower California,” California History, 94.1 (Spring 2017), 43-54.