Group 2
Alfred McCoy: Political
Caricature of the American Era
Alfred McCoy
Alfred “Al” William McCoy is an American historian
and educator.
He is the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of
History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He specializes in the history of the Philippines,
foreign policy of the United States, European
colonization of Southeast Asia, illegal drug trade,
and Central Intelligence Agency covert operations.
Born: June 8, 1945
Citizenship: Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Alfred McCoy and Alfredo Roces
Alfred McCoy Alfredo Roces
Achievements
Philippine Catholic Mass
Media Award
Best Book of the year for
1985
Philippine National Book
award for history 1986
Gintong Aklat Award
(Manila)
Special Citation for history
(1987)
Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature
of the American Era, 1900- 1941
A political cartoon, a type of editorial
cartoon, it is a graphic with caricatures of
public figure, expressing the artist opinion.
Gained full expression during the American
era.
Filipino artist recorded national attitudes
towards the coming of the American.
Viewed from the vantage point of half century
and more this political cartoons are evocative
record of half-forgotten history.
These cartoons were simultaneously ‘a mirror
of society’s colonial condition’ and ‘act protest’
a weapon in the struggle of social reform.
Cartoons play a role in the political discourse
of society that provides for freedom of speech
and of the press.
During the American Era
The four decades of American colonial rule were
a formative period in the Philippine history.
The Philippine move forward from an
authoritarian Spanish regime to autonomy and
freedom.
Under U.S colonial tutelage, the Philippine
experienced a process of Americanization and
modernization that has left a lasting legacy.
Even at first contact in the 16thcentury, the
Spanish conquistadors found that Filipino
possessed a sophisticated material, culture and a
complex society.
At the close to Spanish era in 1898, the Philippine
already had substantial cities, a thriving export
agriculture, and strong church and state
structures. The revolution defeat of the Spanish
empire in 1898 is an ample testimony to the
sophistication of Filipino society.
Like the nationalist the Philippine press
established itself during the decade following
the American invasion of 1898. it was the time
of remarkable ferment and cultural creativity.
Censorship laws after the end of military rule
1901 provided and outlet for their protest.
The Spanish Comision permanente de censura
simply banned all Filipino creativity, American
press control were much more flexible.
Spanish censorhip simply banned any non-religious
Filipino publication and made it impossible to even
consider opening a newspaper in late 19thcentury manila
Manilas first Spanish daily newspaper began publishing
in 1846.
The Filipino gained their earliest editorial experience as
propagandist in Madrid or a newspaper publisher for the
revolution in 1898-99.
The first Filipino daily newspaper, La Independencia,
appeared. Published clandestinely in Manila, the paper
was directed by Antonio Luna.
A public post is not a hereditary
crown…
War, against the Speculators
Death Cars
Flaming Youth
A New Wrinkle in the Art of Thieving
Ang Mga Mapapalad
American Worker, Filipino Worker
Ang Makalooyang Kahimtang ni Iyo–Hantoy nga
Gidat-ugan sa mga Nasyonalista sa mga Mabug-at
ug Makabuktot nga Buhis
Equal work, unequal salary, why?
The Loyalty of the Filipinos
Other example of Political
Caricatures of the American Era
Analysis of the Political Caricatures of
the American Era
The transition from the Spanish Colonial
Period to the American Occupation Period
demonstrated different strands of changes
and shifts in culture, society, and politics.
During the American Period, Filipinos were
introduced to different manifestations of
modernity like healthcare, modern
transportation, and media. This ushered in a
more open and freer press.
The upper principalia class experienced
economic prosperity with the opening up of
the Philippine economy to the United States
but the majority of the poor Filipino remained
poor, desperate, and victims of state
repression.
In the arena of politics, for example, we see
the price that Filipinos paid for the
democracy modeled after the Americans.
Patronage also became influential and
powerful, not only between clients and
patrons but also between the newly formed
political parties composed of the elite and the
United States.
Thus, the essence of competing political
parties to enforce choices among the voters
was cancelled out.
The transition from a catholic-centered,
Spanish-Filipino society to an Imperial
American-assimilated one, and its
complication, were also depicted in the
cartoons.
The rules governing the issuance of drivers’
license was loose and traffic police could not
be bothered by rampant violations of traffic
rules.
Young people, as early as that period, disturbed
the conservative Filipino mindset by engaging in
daring sexual activities in public spaces.
The other cartoons depicts how Americans
controlled Filipinos through seemingly harmless
American objects.
Lastly, the cartoons also illustrated the
conditions of poor Filipinos in the Philippines
now governed by the United States.
Group Members:
Bariso, Kent Vincent M.
Cahulugan, Jasper T.
Conanan, Joan C.
