POLITICAL CARICATURES

DURING THE AMERICAN

PERIOD
By: ALFRED MCCOY
 Alfred W. Mccoy

- Born June 8,1945

- Philippine political history and global opium trafficking

- Professor of history at the University of Wisconsin where he also served as Director of Center for
Southeast Asian Studies.
Caricature 1: The Independent on May
20,1916.
Caricature 2: The Independent on 16 June
1917.
Caricature 3: Colorum
Caricature 4: Cinema
Caricature 5: The Independent on 27
November 1915.
Caricature 6: Lipang kalabaw on August
1907.
ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL CARICATURE DURING THE AMERICAN PERIOD
- The upper principalia class experienced economic prosperity with the opening of the Philippine
economy to the united states but the majority of the poor filipino remain poor , desperate and victims of
state repression .

- Patronage also became influential and powerful, not only between clients and patrons but also between
the newly formed political parties composed of the patrons but also between the newly formed political
parties composed of the elite and the united states.

- The unprecedented increase of motorized vehicles in the city , automobiles become a popular mode
of transportation in the city and led to the emergence of taxis . However ,m the last laws and policy
implementation was mediocre .

- This is a direct consequence of the drastic urbanization of the Philippine society.

- we can see how that period was the meeting point between the conservative past and the liberated
future of the Philippines .

- The cartoons also illustrated the conditions of poor filipinos in the Philippines now governed by the
united states . From the looks of it , nothing much has change .
GROUP 1

CYRA M. LEONA

MARK ANGELO NAYAT

APRIL ROSE ESCAURIAGA

KRISTYL JOY ESPINELE

RUSSEL ESCULTURA

CHRISTIAN ESPENO

ROSALYN NAZARIO
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