Alfred William

McCoy
Biography and Caricatures
 Born on Earned a American
About June 8, Ph.D. in Historian
Alfred William 1945 in Southeast and
Concord, Asian Educator
McCoy Massachu History at at the
setts, Yale University
United University of
States Wisconsin
–Madison

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Works Policing
The Politics Closer Than
His writing on Southeast America’s Empire:
of Heroin in Brothers The United
Asia has focused on two Southeast (New Haven, States, the
topics — Philippine Asia 1999)
Philippines, and
the Rise of the
political history and Surveillance
global opium trafficking (New York, State (Madison,
1972) 2009)

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 Association for Asian Philippine National University of
Studies, Grant Book Award, 1985, Wisconsin Graduate
Goodman Prize, 2001 1995, 2001 School, J.R.W. Smail
Chair in History, 2004

Awards and
recognition

University of Yale Graduate School Association for

Wisconsin, Hillsdale Alumni Associaton, Asian Studies,
Award for Arts & Wilbur Cross Medal, George Kahin Prize,
Humanities, 2012 2012 2011

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Caricatures
• An art form that exaggerates
human features and pokes
fun at its subjects.
• A form of social and political
commentary, which usually
targets person of power and
authority.
• Commentaries in mass media
inevitably shape public
opinion and such kind of
opinion is worthy of historical
examination.
The Independent, May 20,1916
The Independent, June 16,1917
The Philippine Free Press
The cartoon shows a politician from
Tondo, named Dr. Santos, passing his crown to
his brother-in-law, Dr. Barcelona. A Filipino
guy was trying to stop Santos telling him not
to give the crown to Barcelona because it was
not his to begin with.
In this cartoon, a Filipino child stole a
skinny chicken because he had nothing to eat.
A police officer was relentlessly pursuing the
said child. A man wearing a salakot was
grabbing the officer telling him to leave the
small-time pickpockets and turn at the great
thieves instead, pointing to warehouses
containing bulks of stolen goods.
This cartoon was a commentary on the
unprecedented cases of colorum automobiles
in the city streets. This was published when
fatal accidents involving colorum vehicles
occurred too often already.
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 This cartoon depicts a cinema. A blown-up police office was
at the screen saying that couples are not allowed to neck and
make love in the theater. Two youngsters looked horrified while
an older couple seemed amused.

Here, we see the caricature of Uncle Sam riding a chariot pulled by

Filipinos wearing school uniforms. The Filipino boys were carrying
American objects like baseball bats, whiskey, and boxing gloves. McCoy
says that this cartoon was based on an event in 1907 when William
Howard Taft was brought to the Manila pier riding a chariot pulled by
the students of Liceo de Manila. Such was condemned by the
nationalists at that time.
The Independent, November 27, 1915

In the last cartoon, we can see Uncle Sam rationing

porridge to the politicians and members of the Progresista Party
while members of the Nationalista Party look on and wait for
their turn. This cartoon depicts the patronage of the United
States being coveted by politicians from either of the party.
Lipang Kalabaw, August 24, 1907

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