Lesson 2: Excerpt from Alfred McCoy and Alfredo Roces' Political Caricatures of the American Era

          Philippine political cartoons gained full expression during the American era. Filipino artists recorded national
attitudes toward 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
archives provides a comprehensive background not only to the cartoons but to the turbulent period as well. Artist-
writer Alfredo Roces, who designed the book, contributes an essay on Philippine graphic satire of the period.
 
Alfred McCoy
     - J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in Southeast Asia.
     - He has written about and testified before Congress on, Philippine political history, opium trafficking in the Golden
Triangle, underworld crime syndicates, and international political surveillance.