Vestiges of war : the Philippine-American War and the aftermath of an imperial dream, 1899-1999 / edited by Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia.

A project of Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute, New York University.

and, his most recent, Eye of the Fish: A Personal Achipelago. He edited Brown River, White Ocean, an anthology of Philippine literature in English. He writes for The Village Voice and the Sunday Inquirer magazine.

Memories of Overdevelopment

United States intervention in the Philippines began with the little-known 1899 Philippine-American War, which followed on the heels of the three-month 1898 Spanish-American War. The war in the archipelago lasted for almost a decade and, disregarding the existing Philippine revolutionary government, the U.S. forcibly took over from Spain and held the islands as a colony until 1946. The consequences of American colonialism continue to influence and other wise burden Filipinos and Filipino-Americans, from politics to pop culture and the arts. Using the Philippine-American War as its departure point in analyzing U.S. Philippine relations, Vestiges of War retrieves this willfully forgotten event and places it where it properly belongs: as the catalyst that led to increasing U.S. interventionism and expansionism in the Asia Pacific region. This seminal, multidisciplinary anthology examines the official American nationalist narrative story of benevolent assimilation and fraternal tutelage in the United States half century of colonial occupation of the Philippines. Integrating critical and visual art essays, archival and contemporary photographs, plays, and poetry, the book compellingly addresses complex Philippine and U.S. perspectives and experiences in the light of American colonialism . Vestiges of War will force readers to reshape their views on what has been a deliberately obscure but significant phase in the histories of both countries, one which continues to haunt the present. Angel Velasco Shaw is a film/video maker based in New York whose nationally and internationally screened works include Balikbayan/Return to Home, Nailed, Asian Boys, and Umbilical Cord. She has been teaching media/cultural and community studies in the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University since 1995. Poet, critic, and nonfiction writer Luis H. Francia has written several books, including The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poem