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    This document summarizes Alfred McCoy's book "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era (1900-1941)". It provides background on McCoy and what political cartoons and caricatures are. It then discusses some of the key issues portrayed in the cartoons such as the discrimination Filipinos faced in civil service, the corruption that emerged after 15 years of party politics, American imperialism in Mindanao in 1926, and the debate over Philippine independence in the 1930s. The document analyzes several individual cartoons and the politicians and issues they touched on.

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    This document summarizes Alfred McCoy's book "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era (1900-1941)". It provides background on McCoy and what political cartoons and caricatures are. It then discusses some of the key issues portrayed in the cartoons such as the discrimination Filipinos faced in civil service, the corruption that emerged after 15 years of party politics, American imperialism in Mindanao in 1926, and the debate over Philippine independence in the 1930s. The document analyzes several individual cartoons and the politicians and issues they touched on.

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    This document summarizes Alfred McCoy's book "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era (1900-1941)". It provides background on McCoy and what political cartoons and caricatures are. It then discusses some of the key issues portrayed in the cartoons such as the discrimination Filipinos faced in civil service, the corruption that emerged after 15 years of party politics, American imperialism in Mindanao in 1926, and the debate over Philippine independence in the 1930s. The document analyzes several individual cartoons and the politicians and issues they touched on.

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    My Report History 101 BSHM 1

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    This document summarizes Alfred McCoy's book "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era (1900-1941)". It provides background on McCoy and what political cartoons and caricatures are. It then discusses some of the key issues portrayed in the cartoons such as the discrimination Filipinos faced in civil service, the corruption that emerged after 15 years of party politics, American imperialism in Mindanao in 1926, and the debate over Philippine independence in the 1930s. The document analyzes several individual cartoons and the politicians and issues they touched on.

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    POLITICAL

    CARICATURES
    OF THE
    ( EDITORIAL CARTOONS )

    AMERICAN
    ALFRED McCOY

    ERA
    Alfred McCoy’s
    Philippine
    Cartoons:
    Political
    Caricature of the
    American Era
    (1900-1941)
    WHAT IS A
    CARICATURE?
    WHAT IS A
    CARICATURE?
    • It is a picture,
    description, or imitation
    of a person in which
    certain striking
    characteristics are
    exaggerated in order to
    create a comic or
    grotesque effect.
    WHO IS ALFRED McCOY?
    LFRED W. McCOY
    • Born on June 8, 1945 in Massachutes,
    U.S.A

    • Citizenship
    Author’s Background
    Alfred McCoy
    • A professor of History at the University of
    Wisconsin Madison, where he also served as
    Director of Center for Southern Asian Studies.
    • Specialized in Philippine Political History and
    Global Opium Traficcking.
    • Majority of his works and research focuses on
    Philippines.
    • Author of the Politics of Heroin in Southeast
    Asia, Philippine Cartoon, Closer than Brothers
    and many more.
    Alfred McCoy’s
    Philippine
    Cartoons:
    Political Caricature
    of the American
    Era
    (1900-1941)
    POLITICAL CARICATURE OF THE AMERICAN ERA
    1900-1941
    Awards earned:

    • Philippine Catholic Mass Media Award, Best Book of the


    Year for 1985

    • Philippine National Book Award for History, 1986


    AUTHOR’S
    BACKGROUND
    ALFREDO ROCES

    • Artist writer from the known


    Roces Clan in Philippine print
    media.
    • Co-author of Political Caricature of
    American Era.
    • Known journalist in Manila Times.
    Philippine Cartoons: Political
    Caricature of the American Era
    (1900-1941)

    • Alfred McCoy and


    Alfredo Roces
    • Newspaper dailies
    and periodicals
    HISTORY BACKGROUND OF
    “POLITICAL CARICATURE OF THE
    AMERICAN ERA
    • During the American Era, Philippine Political
    cartoons gained full expression.
    • Filipino artists recorded national attitudes towards
    the coming of the Americans as well as the
    changing mores and times.
    • While the 377 cartoons compiled in this book speak
    for themselves.
    • Historian Alfred McCoy’s extensive research in
    Philippine and American archieves provides a
    comprehensive background not only to the cartoons
    LAW AND ORDER – DEMOCRACY’S GREATEST BULWARK

    FAUSTO F. GONZALES- SIOCO ( 1897-1951)


     SECOND DISTRICT, PAMPANGA
     HE ATTACK THE RAMPANT CRIME, POLITICAL ASSASSINATION AND
    COMMUNIST CLASS AGITATION IN HIS HOME PROVINC.
     HE IS ALSO A WEALTHY LAND OWNER WITH 3 EUROPEAN GRADUATE
    DEGREES.
     HE ALSO WON OFFICE IN 1938 AGAINTS THE RADICAL POPULAR
    FRONT’S CANDIDATE.
     HE ALSO OWN A SCHOOL IN PAMPANGA THE FGSMS (FAUSTO
    GONZALES SIOCO MEMORIAL SCHOOL)
    BROTHER UNDER THE SKIN- HERMANOS EN EL FONDO
    DEMOBILIZED AMERICAN
    SOLDIER

    As Demobilized American Soldiers filled the insular civil


    service and American corporations won the major
    development projects, Filipino nationalists saw themselves
    becoming economic aliens in their own land. The cartoon's
    image of Meralco (E.R.R & L.Co.) dragging Juan de la Cruz
    along the neck as he vomits pesos from his emaciated frame is
    no overstatement.
    FILIPINO BEGAN WINNING
    When Filipinos began winning civil service
    appointments after 1913 they found themselves
    facing serious discrimination in both wages and
    positions.

    Francis b. Harrison the liberal Governor


    General reed the pro; American hiring policies
    of the Taft Era(1900-12) and began the
    "Filipinization" of the civil service.
    Equal Work, Unequal Salary, Why?
    American Worker-
    Filipino Worker
    -refers not to a ten fold difference in
    Filipino and American manual wages
    within the colony, but to a more
    fundamental inequality -the difference in
    wages and working conditions between
    the two countries.
    After only 15 years of party politics, the
    corruption of the political process had
    become apparent by the early 1920's
    The Elections Before and After

    AFTER ONLY 15 YEARS OF PARTY POLITICS,


    THE CORRUPTION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS
    HAD BECOME APPARENT BY THE EARLY 120’s.

    In 1926, the future of Mindanao became one of the key issues in


    the Philippines-American relations. American imperialists
    exploited the tensions to advocate partition of the Philippines and
    a permanent American protector for Mindanao.
    In 1926, the future of Mindanao
    In 1926, the future of Mindanao
    became one of the key issues in the
    Philippines-American relations.
    American imperialists exploited the
    tensions to advocate partition of the
    Philippines and a permanent American
    protector for Mindanao.
    • January 1926 Crisis to a boil, the ex president’s
    nephew, NICHOLAS ROOSEVELT, visited
    Mindanao and was met the delegation of muslim
    datus beseeching him to intercede for the return of
    American rule.

    • MAY 1926 Responding to the muslim demands,


    imperialist forces in the U.S Congress introduced the
    BACON BILL.
    TWO CARTOONS PUBLISHED

    THIS CARTOON
    PUBLISHED IN 1928
    SHOW JUAN DE LA
    CRUZ AS A BEAST OF
    BURDEN BEARING A
    CRUSHING LORD OF
    TAXES AND
    JOBHOLDERS.
    THE RESULTS OF CO-EDUCATION
    VICENTE SOTTO
    • BORN APRIL 18, 1877
    • DIED MAY 28, 1950
    • FILIPINO PLAYWRIGHT, JOURNALIST AND
    POLITICIAN
    • BECOME SENATOR 1946 TO 1950
    • BECOME A HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE FROM
    1922 TO 1925, HE REPRESENT CEBU’S 2ND DISTRICT

    VICENTE SOTTO, PUBLISHER OF THE INDEPENDENT


    WAS ALSO A CONSERVATIVE MORALIST. HE SEEMED
    TO FEEL THAT THE PHILIPPINES COULD NOT WIN
    INDEPENDENCE UNTIL THE FILIPINOS HAD SHAPED A
    NATIONAL CHARACTER CAPABLE OF BEARING THAT
    BURDEN.
    THROUGHT 1933
    THE BATTLE OVER
    ACCEPTANCE OR
    REJECTION OF THE
    HARE-HAWES-
    CUTTING
    INDEPENDENCE BILL
    CONTINUED TO
    DIVIDE PHILIPPINES
    POLITICS.
    WHAT TO DO WITH PHILIPPINES?
    This is a political cartoon
    that was published in the
    U.S in 1898. The cartoon
    shows President McKinley
    taking the savage (The
    Philippines) and debating
    how to handle the country.
    “There was nothing left
    for us to do but to take
    them all and to educate the
    Filipinos,uplift,civilize and
    Christianized them.” said
    President McKinley. The
    “THANK
    YOU FOR
    LISTENIN
    G”

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