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Sculpted Memories: Apolinario Mabini's Memorialization and Chamorro–Filipino Relations in Guam.
Document Type
Article
Source
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 2024, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p1-23. 23p.
Subject
*HISTORY of archives
*MEMORIALIZATION
*FILIPINOS
*ORAL history
UNITED States armed forces
Language
ISSN
0160-9009
Abstract
Filipino revolutionary Apolinario Mabini's incarceration in Asan Beach on Guam from 1901–1903 continues to have political implications today, as evidenced by Chamorro-led pushback against Filipino-sponsored Mabini memorials in the village of Asan. Much of this debate is centered around differences between Chamorro and Filipino memories about Asan, which stems from the US empire's containment of their relations. Through applying an abolitionist geographical critique to US Naval archives and oral history interviews of Chamorros and Filipinos in Guam, this article unpacks the role that US militarization's carceral logics play in transforming Mabini's memory into a marker of containment for Chamorros, Filipinos, and Guam's landscapes and waterscapes. In centering an Indigenous and Filipino feminist reading of colonial archives and Chamorro–Filipino relations, I identify moments when Chamorros and Filipinos have (re)mapped alternative modes of relation beyond the containment of Chamorros' ties to place and the US military's reliance on Filipinos as a source of labor for militarized infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]