"Chocolate Impulse", Issue #1 (California), 1993
Scope and Contents
The purpose of the Zine and Underground Press Collection managed by Vanderbilt Special Collections and University Archives is meant to document the zine culture and underground presses of Tennessee and the surrounding southern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia). We also collect items that support faculty research, like the zines on Witchcraft and Demonology.
The Zine and Underground Press Collection is arranged by subject matter (labeled as such by our archivists, not the item creators), and then alphabetically and chronologically within subjects. Geographic locations are also included within the title or subject headings for each item or folder of items.
Series
- Eugenics and White Supremacy
- Gender and Sexuality
- Music
- Poetry and Short Stories
- Pop Culture and Social Commentary
- Science Fiction and Fantasy
- State Violence and Genocide
- Visual Arts
- Witchcraft and Demonology
- Zine City Fest
Dates
- Creation: 1993
Conditions Governing Access
The physical materials from this collection may be viewed only in the reading room of Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives. Materials should be requested two to three days in advance to facilitate easier access. Contact specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu to schedule an appointment.
Biographical / Historical
Chocolate Impulse #1 is a hoax zine created by Jim Goad and Debbie Goad, a Los Angeles-based couple, in response to their critics within the zine community. From 1991 to 1994, Goad self-published four yearly issues of the zine ANSWER Me!, with then-wife Debbie Goad, and received negative backlash for the zine's racism, sexism, and homophobia. The Goads distributed a pseudonymous zine, Chocolate Impulse, against themselves, in which they claimed to be an interracial lesbian couple "Valerie Chocolate" (a Black woman) and "Faith Impulse" (a white woman), going so far as to set up a fake address for it in Kentucky. Jim Goad confessed to the hoax in the fourth issue of the ANSWER ME! zine. In 1998, Simon and Schuster published Jim Goad's first major book, The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats. He continues to write and publish books dealing with white supremacy, homophobia, and sexism.
Full Extent
From the Collection: 1 Linear Feet (2 Hollinger Boxes, 1 Flat File)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives Repository
Special Collections Library
1101 19th Ave. S.
Nashville TN 37212 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
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