Political Caricatures

Political Caricatures

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(Terrific Trio)
Table Of Contents

01 02
Historical background of
Author's background the primary source

03 04
Analysis of the primary Relevance of the
source primary source
05
Contribution of the Document in
Understanding the Grand Narrative in
Philippine History
Author’s
Background
ALFRED W. MCCOY
Born in June 8, 1945, in Massachusetts, U.S.A
Dr. Alfred W. McCoy is a professor of the SouthEast

Asian History at the University of Wisconsin at
Madison where he also serves as director of the Center
for SouthEast Asian Studies. He's spent the past
quarter-century writing about the politics and history
of the opium trade.
McCoy has spent the past thirty years writing about Southeast Asian
history and politics. His publications include Philippine Cartoons (1985),
Anarchy of Families (1994), Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the
Philippine Military Academy (2000) and Loves at teh Margin (2001).
After earning a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at Yale, the writings of

McCoy on this region has focused on two topics-- Philippine political
history and global opium trafficking. The Philippines remains the major
focus of his research. His teaching interests include: Modern Philppine
social and political history; U.S foreign policy; colonial empires in Southeast
Asia; global illicit drug trafficking; and CIA covert operations.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF
THE PRIMARY SOURCE
1900-1941
-While the 377 cartoons compiled
-Philippine political cartoons gained full in this book speak for themselves,
expression during the American era. historian Alfred McCoy's extensive
Filipino artists recorded national attitudes research in Philippine and
toward the coming of the Americans as American archives provides a
comprehensive background not
well as the changing mores and times.
only to the cartoons but to the
turbulent period as well.
PHILIPPINE CARTOONS
(1985)
-Philippine Catholic Mass Media Award Best
Book of the Year of 1985
-Philippine National Book Award for History,

1986 Gintong Aklat Award (Manila)
-Special Citation for History, 1987

Definition of Terms
Caricatures Aparcero Homesteaders

A picture, description, or "sharecropping" someone who settles lawfully on
imitation of a person in which A type of farming in which government land with the intent
certain striking characteristics families rent small plots of land to acquire title to it.
are exaggerated in order to from a landowner in return for a
create a comic or grotesque proportion of their crop, to be
(comically) effect. given to the landowner at the
end of each year.
Definition of Terms
Homestead Imperialism
the policy of extending the rule or
the home and adjoing land
authority of an empire or nation over
occupied by a family.
foreign countries, or of acquiring and
holding colonies and dependencies,
advocacy of imperial or sovereign
interests over the interests of the
dependent states.
ANALYSIS OF THE
PRIMARY SOURCE
IS THE POLICE FORCE BRIBED? NEW BIRD OF PREY
 Depicts the first of Manila's periodic police  The cartoon's caption, "New Bird of Prey" is an
scandals during the American Era allusion to the most famous libel case in the
history of Philippine Journalism.
 The cartoonist, Fernando Amorsolo, gives
the illustration of his usual racist edge, e.g.,  It illustrated the fate of a local newspaper
Chinese men are usually caricatured for publication after an editorial attacking a high
they are described as corruptors or opium ranking official in the Philippine Commission
smugglers. (Closure of the paper and selling of its assets due
to libel case).
WHILE THE PRIEST LIVES ALONE IN
A BIG BUILDING
 The editorial below, the cartoon urged

the government to confiscate the large
priest's residence attached to Santa
Cruz parish church. People are
congested at the Plaza Goiti and Plaza
Santa Cruz while the single priest sits
in a sprawling residence.
WHERE THE MOSQUITO IS KING
 Built on a swamp and ringed with
streams and ponds, Manila is a
natural breeding ground for malarial
mosquitoes.
 The Board of Health distributed

millions of doses of quinine and
eliminated mosquito breeding
grounds by filling up the standing
water holes or by spraying them with
petroleum.
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, DEATH CARS
FRATERNITY  The Free press denounces the proliferation of
 It is a mocking editorial about illegal taxis called COLORUMS.
authorizing active and retired

 With automobiles crowded into Manila's narrow
legislators to bear firearms.
streets and authorities failure to take necessary
Sarcastically, the Manila Press actions, the Free press had some gloomy
went outraged. They sated that thoughts. With the proliferation of illegal PUVS
those people in authority must and Taxis (Colorums), fatal accidents were
then be respected. expected to rise on that year.
A NEW WRINKLE IN THE ART OF
THIEVING
-This shows City Capitalists using the Torrens
Title process, which required relinquishment
of customary claims to issue titles, to grab
lands in Nueva Ecija and other Central Luzon
Provinces.
WHY THE "APARCERO" REBELS

 It shows the form of landlord usury
used to strip tenant farmers from
their rightful share of harvest.
WHAT’S GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT IT?
 When PNB (Philippine National Bank)

began to collapse, it was forced to tighten
its credit operations. Then, the sugar
planters Negros protested. Banks, due to
the financial stringency, turn a deaf to all
the appeals.
 BROTHER'S UNDER THE SKIN - urges Filipinos
to end social conflict and deal with each other
fairly.
 THE DEVIL'S BROOD - the tenant farmers in

Pangasinan have protested their treatment and
dock and sugar mill workers in Western Visayas
habe mounted a general strike, the largest in
Philippine History.
 A SOVIETIZED PHILIPPINES - the Socialist

Party leader Perdo Abad Santos stated "If it were
possible for the Soviet Union to intervente in the
Philippines, such intervention, I am sure, would be
welcomed by the working class"
 LAW AND ORDER DEMOCRACY'S GREATEST

BULWARK - supports a recent speech on the floor
of the Assemble by representative Fausto F.
Gonzales-Sioco attacking the rampant crime,
political assassination and communist class
agitation in his home province.
RELEVANCE OF THE
PRIMARY SOURCE
RELEVANCE
• Editorial Cartoons play an important role in understanding the

Filipinos' sentiments concerning the transition of governance from
Spain to the Americans. Pressing issues are clearly illustrated in
the caricature of characters and satirized situations in the
Philippine Society during the American era. Indeed, artists' works
are relevant in the study of the Philippine History. Artists' free
expression of thoughts through their cartoons or caricatures
somehow influenced the Filipinos at that particular period.
CONTRIBUTION OF THE DOCUMENT IN
UNDERSTANDING THE GRAND
NARRATIVE IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY
 Accounts pointed that the Philippine press  Characterize a cause
has had a love-hate relationship with -Since people's sensitivities are
political cartoons as only in 1985 has there captures immediately through images, the
been a published book on Philippine popularity of cartoons has risen
cartoons. The book of McCoy and Roces throughout the years. Political cartoons
(1986) was the first one to legitimize serve as primers for engaging in the
cartoon as sources of Filipino thoughts prevailing opinions of that time. One
and views. Although the book only positive effect of political cartoon is that it
covered the period of early American becomes the representation of the current
through the commonwealth, it reflected conditions of our country- it lets us see
on two cartoon themes: anti-American the problem.
sentiments and the condemnation of the
ruling class.
CONCLUSION…
Political Caricatures represent the

feelings of the people, way to discuss
political and social issues using art.
THAT’S ALL.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!
God bless and stay safe everyone!
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Political Caricatures

Dr. Alfred W. McCoy is a professor of the SouthEast

After earning a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at Yale, the writings of

-Philippine National Book Award for History,

-Special Citation for History, 1987

Caricatures Aparcero Homesteaders

 The editorial below, the cartoon urged

 The Board of Health distributed

authorizing active and retired

WHY THE "APARCERO" REBELS

 When PNB (Philippine National Bank)

 THE DEVIL'S BROOD - the tenant farmers in

 A SOVIETIZED PHILIPPINES - the Socialist

 LAW AND ORDER DEMOCRACY'S GREATEST

• Editorial Cartoons play an important role in understanding the

Political Caricatures represent the

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