CALL FOR PAPERS
The Radical History Review, an independent academic journal of history,
politics, and culture published by Cambridge University Press, is
currently soliciting articles and essays for a thematic issue on
"Islands in History: Perspectives on U.S. Imperialism and the Legacies
of 1898." The centennial of the Spanish-Cuban-American War and the War
in the Philippines offers an opportunity to reflect on the national and
international significance of U.S. expansion at the turn of the
century. Events in 1898 profoundly changed the histories of U.S.,
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and Spain and continue to
shape lives, politics, culture and economics in these areas. This
issue of the RHR seeks to explore the links between the history of
imperialism and the many responses, debates and consequences including
anticolonial political and cultural activism, immigration and
citizenship, and the construction of national identities. We are
especially interested in articles that challenge the dominant discourse
on U.S. expansion and regional responses and engage with current
political issues related to colonial and postcolonial practices.
We welcome articles that address:
* Specific and comparative analysis of U.S. expansion at the turn of
the century in Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific;
* Early accounts of responses to the transfer of control and the
creation of new hegemonic configurations within the newly subjected
territories;
* The role of discourses about democracy in constructing the discourses
of legitimization for invasion and in shaping responses to U.S. presence;
* The various colonizing projects instituted or emerging from the U.S.
invasions in 1898, and their impact on theories of governmental notions
of autonomy and self-determination, and the very definition of
colonialism;
* The impact of distinct processes of racialization in informing
representations of the subject populations and shaping U.S. policy
toward each country and region;
* The effect of U.S. racial ideologies on local and national ethnic and
racial hierarchies;
* Local, regional, national ethnic and racial processes of identity
formation that emerged in response to colonization by the U.S., and
other anti-imperialist and anti-racist political and cultural responses
to the invasion;
* Impact on global economy, culture and politics beyond the nations
directly involved;
* The implication of imperial ideologies and projects in the
construction of gendered hierarchies and sexual identities;
* The role of organized religion and its practitioners in helping to
solidify U.S. imperialism and in creating responses to it;
* The demographic transformations that resulted from U.S. occupation,
including but not limited to the distinct histories of the various
colonial diasporas and their incorporation into ethnic and racial
configuration within the U.S.;
* Effects of linguistic policies on processes of assimilation and
pacification;
* The cultural representations and ideological workings of imperialism
from a transnational or comparative perspective;
* The continued impact of imperial legacies on debates about culture,
politics and economy in the U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, and
Guam.
Submission deadline: April 15, 1998
Please send submissions to Managing Editor, Radical History Review,
Tamiment Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
Inquiries to Pennee Bender or Yvonne Lassalle at
pbender@email.gc.cuny.edu, or to the RHRoffice at 212-998-2632
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