a sequel under [an old name], exposed: Excerpts from “The People of the Philippines”

Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, The U.S. War Department established the Division of Customs and Insular Affairs to administer customs and civil affairs in the territories ceded to the United States by Spain, which included Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

Noelle de la Paz is a poet, writer, and artist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Southwest Review, Newtown Literary, Queensbound, and elsewhere, and as part of the exhibitions Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text (Franklin Street Works, 2019) and Boulevard of Ghosts (Local Project Art Space, 2021). She was a 2021–22 Emerge–Surface–Be Fellow at The Poetry Project, and has also received support from Brooklyn Poets and the Queens Council for the Arts.