The year 1998 marks 100 years of official United States colonialism. The intention of this publication is two-fold: to describe and map the new and continued U.S. colonialist management (and acquisition) strategies and to discuss strategies of resistance to colonialism in its many guises and geographies.
This bilingual journal will be published throughput 1998, and will be organized in four issues. We are looking for work that examines these broad areas in specific contexts, whether in local histories, comparative studies, fiction, graphic arts, manifestos, theory or autobiography. Colonialism is rarely named or acknowledged as such and it is manifested covertly in such forms as overwhelming financial dependence, trade agreements, and military presence. for that reason, we are attempting to leave the range of subjects fairly open-ended. Though the focus will be on U.S. colonialism, comparative histories, work dealing with covert U.S. colonialism (Palestine, Mexico, Panama) and work examining the transitions from official colonialism to long-distance colonialism (Philippines) is welcome.
Issue Focus Deadline Date of Publication
1 Histories 12/1/97 2/98
Who, what, when, where
2 Occupations 3/1/98 6/98
and the policing of borders
3 Geographies 7/1/98 9/98
Immigration and Diaspora
4 Resistance Strategies 10/1/98 12/98
What institutional and cultural forms (public and private) does U.S. colonialism take? Territories, "commonwealths", trade agreements, military bases, urban enterprise zones, philanthropy, film production and distribution, the feminization of low-wage labor, male underemployment, anthropology, ethnography, representations of sexuality, population control, policing sex, sociology, English-only initiatives, media, education, etc...In short: Who, what when where?
This issue will be devoted to Occupation and the policing of its borders in all its forms (cultural, military, ideological): militarism, sex trade in relationship to military bases, gentrification, community policing, low-intensity warfare, COINTELPRO, native police informants, prison industry, political prisoners, land-rights, "the drug war", peace-keepers, media saturation, privatization, la migra..
What happens to the displaced? What is their relationship to the colonial power from within the U.S.? What new tensions do they create? border towns, immigration, Native American reservations, new cultural forms of production, marielitos, migrant workers, "ilegales", U.S. universities and the colonial elite, urban segregation and development, domestic colonialism, mail order brides, migrant domestic servants.
What are the problems and possibilities among these strategies of resistance? Any new ideas? General strikes, student organizations, international labor organizations and alliances, clandestine military organizations, independent media, community centers, satire, Cuba, cultural production, post-colonial theory, independence movements, indigenous autonomy movements, protests, renouncing citizenship / claiming nationhood, resisting English language education, appealing to the U.N. Committee on Decolonization.
We encourage submissions that deal directly with gender and sexuality in relation to colonialism.
This bilingual journal will be published in English and Spanish by Video Machete, a collective of independent media-makers, artists, educators and youth. Due to our limited resources we strongly encourage the authors to submit both an English and a Spanish version if it is possible. If the author is not able to do so, the journal will translate.
We look forward to your proposals and submissions. Please submit a printed and if possible a disk copy of your submission. Please submit a printed an if possible a disk copy of your submission. All submissions will be returned upon request. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us through phone, mail or fax at: `
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