POLITICAL CARICATURE OF THE AMERICAN ERA

Alfred McCoy  Art exaggerating human features and

poking fun at its subject
 Born in 1945  Art technique became part of the
 Massachusetts, USA print media as a form of Social and
 Professor of South East Asian Political commentary, usually targets
History at University of Wisconsin persons at power and authority
at Madison  Became effective tool of publicizing
 Director of SEA Studies at the opinions through heavy use of
same school SYMBOLISM
 History and Politics are the focus of  Represents opinion and captures the
his writings audience’s imagination
- Philippine Cartoons (1985)  Nationalism, Patriotism, Eye-opener
- Anarchy of Families (1994) and Discover our roots
- Closer than Brothers: Manhood - Commentaries with the
at the Philippine Military caricatures are useful in seeking
Academy (2000) to see the opinions and views of
- Lives at the Margin (2001) people on policies which are
 After Ph.D at Yale he focused of 2 rooted on the opinions and
topics views of officials in the
- Philippine Political History government
- Global Opium Trafficking - Becomes the representation of
Document the current conditions of our
country
 1900 – 1941 Philippine Political - Lets us see the problem
Cartoons gained full expression - Glimpse of the past
during the American Era  Reflected two cartoon themes:
- Filipino artist recorded National - Anti American Sentiments
attributes toward the coming of - Condemnation of the Ruling
the Americans as well as the Class
changing more at times
 377 – cartoons compiled 1st Cartoon
- Research based on Philippine  Published in “The Independent” on
and American archives May 20, 1916
- Focuses not only on cartoons  A politician in Tondo named Dr.
but also on the turbulent period Santos was passing a “crown” down
 Achievements to his brother-in-law named Dr.
- 1st book about Caricatures Barcelona
- 1st one to legitimize cartoons as  A Filipino guy trying to stop Dr.
sources of Filipino thoughts and Santos – “The crown was not his to
views begin with”
Caricature  “A PUBLIC POST IS NOT A
HERIDATARY CROWN”
 Art form  Here, we can see the use of
 symbolism. The crown which stand old and conservative mindset of the
for authority, power or the public Filipinos to the liberal exposure of
post while the Salakot and Barong youngsters.
Tagalog shows that the guy wearing
it is a Filipino. 5th cartoon
 Depicts the abuse of power and the  Who is Uncle Sam?
current situation during that time. - "Uncle Sam", "Big
 Today, we can relate political Brother","Yankee Daddy", they are
dynasty to this caricature all symbols of government.
 In which Uncle Sam is a common
2nd Cartoon
personification of the US Federal
 Drawn by Fernando Amorsolo on government or the country itself.
June 16, 1917  Also his name derived from two
 Filipino child who stole skinny abbreviation letter of the United
chicken because he had nothing to States, which is U.S (Uncle Sam)
eat  The 5th cartoon shows that Uncle
 A Police officer relentlessly chasing Sam is riding a chariot pulled by
the child Filipino students. Uncle Sam there,
 Juan de la Cruz was grabbing the is a American teacher who taught
officer telling him to leave the child those Filipino students the American
who was a small time pickpocketer culture that is why they are wearing
and eye the great thieves instead such thing such holding a baseball
 Commentary to the workings of bat and caps, an armour shield, and
the Manila Police who focuses on etc.
the small time pickpocketer and
lets the thieves committing greater 6th Cartoon
crimes free.  Nacionalista Party - is the oldest
 Used symbolism to present Juan de political party here in the Philippines
la Cruz who was wearing Salakot and some other parts here in Asia. In
and Barong Tagalog which, Nacionalista Party considered
as a country's vehicle for
3rd Cartoon
independence through the building of
 Published in Philippine Free Press a modern nation-state and the
 Commentary on the unprecedented advocacy of efficient self-rule free
cases of colorum automobiles in the from the control of the Americans.
city streets *Federalista Party - is a political
 Published during the fatal accidents party that advocated the annexation
involving colorum vehicles and taxis of the Federal goverment of America
occurring too often. to the Philippines as a US state.
 Wherein, the Americans let Filipinos
4th cartoon rule some government position
 American is on the verge of through requiring selected people
introducing their culture to us. from the Elite Cluster of the society
Wherein they drastically introduced in the Philippines.
different modernity, and it includes - Americans also promoted
the drastic shifting of ideology; the Tutelary Democracy, wherin, the
 Americans give the power to the •Prolonging of poverty and
Filipinos in terns of governing but underdevelopment
not totally, Filipinos governed under •Continuing prevalence of massive
the American's supervision. corruption
 The 6th cartoon shows that, Uncle •Propagation of political and socio-
Sam is doling out the meager economic inequality
patronage to the Filipino government
officials, especially to the members
of Federalista party, with their Relevance and Contribution of Political
victory in the July 1907 election, Caricature
while the Nacionalista members are
still waiting for their turn.
 As a valid historical instrument
Analysis
 Useful in seeking to see the opinions
 Americans promoted different and views of people on politics
strands of changes and shifts in which arr rooted on tbe opinions and
culture, society and mostly to the views of officials in the government
politics. Primers for engaging in the
prevailing opinions of that time
-One of the positive effect of
✓ The selected cartoons illustrate not political cartooon and caricature is
only the opinion of certain media that, it becomes the representationof
about the Philippine society but also the current conditions of our country-
paint a broad image of society and it let us see rhe problems.
politics under the US colonial time.
- In the arena of Politics, we see
that democracy was introduced but
not necessarily practice and it
obviously seen through the rising of
political dynasty.
 Political Dynasty - a sequence of
powerful leaders in the same family
tree. There are two classifications of
political dynasty here in the
Philippines, this are:
1. Thin Political Dynasty - which
means that a political clan that only
has two family member swapping in
a certain position in the government
2. Fat Political Dynasty - which
monopolizing power in a
undesireable situation, that every
member of the same family occupies
different positions in the government
at the same time.
 Effect of having a Political Dynasty