Laura Moore

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United States History

Graduate Student
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 2010

Office: South Hall 4431-L
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Advisor: Paul Spickard

As a first year Department of History graduate student working with Dr. Paul Spickard, I have learned that the historical discourse on migration has tended to cast migration as a masculine endeavor, with women being portrayed as passive participants in a move initiated by men. The historiography on Black migration in the United States has followed this paradigm. Most of the scholarly work that addresses Black migration focuses primarily on male participants. It is limited in geographical scope to Northern cities, and often fails to address the population of Blacks migrating abroad in their quest for racial equality. The limitations of these previous studies have inspired me to examine, through a gender analysis, the experiences of Black female migrants in Paris, France from 1849 to 1949. By expanding beyond the traditional space and scope of Northern cities, I intend to examine the variety of experiences that Black female migrants underwent while searching for racial equality. My research focuses on Black women who were active agents in the migration process.