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    1) The document summarizes Alfred McCoy's book "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricatures of the American Era 1900-1941", which compiles 377 editorial cartoons from various Filipino artists during the American occupation of the Philippines. 2) The cartoons depict various aspects of life under American rule, including unequal treatment of Filipinos compared to Americans in terms of wages, land ownership that exploited farmers, and corruption within the civil service. 3) They also illustrate anti-American sentiments and condemnation of the ruling class, providing insight into the perceptions and society of Filipinos during that turbulent period of history.

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    1) The document summarizes Alfred McCoy's book "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricatures of the American Era 1900-1941", which compiles 377 editorial cartoons from various Filipino artists during the American occupation of the Philippines. 2) The cartoons depict various aspects of life under American rule, including unequal treatment of Filipinos compared to Americans in terms of wages, land ownership that exploited farmers, and corruption within the civil service. 3) They also illustrate anti-American sentiments and condemnation of the ruling class, providing insight into the perceptions and society of Filipinos during that turbulent period of history.

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    1) The document summarizes Alfred McCoy's book "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricatures of the American Era 1900-1941", which compiles 377 editorial cartoons from various Filipino artists during the American occupation of the Philippines. 2) The cartoons depict various aspects of life under American rule, including unequal treatment of Filipinos compared to Americans in terms of wages, land ownership that exploited farmers, and corruption within the civil service. 3) They also illustrate anti-American sentiments and condemnation of the ruling class, providing insight into the perceptions and society of Filipinos during that turbulent period of history.

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    1) The document summarizes Alfred McCoy's book "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricatures of the American Era 1900-1941", which compiles 377 editorial cartoons from various Filipino artists during the American occupation of the Philippines. 2) The cartoons depict various aspects of life under American rule, including unequal treatment of Filipinos compared to Americans in terms of wages, land ownership that exploited farmers, and corruption within the civil service. 3) They also illustrate anti-American sentiments and condemnation of the ruling class, providing insight into the perceptions and society of Filipinos during that turbulent period of history.

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    CRITICAL ANALYSIS ESSAY

    ALFRED McCOY’S PHILIPPINE CARTOONS: POLITICAL CARICATURE OF AMERICAN


    ERA 1900-1941

    Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricatures of the American Era is a book


    authored by Alfred William McCoy, an American professor of history and award-
    winning writer who dedicated his professional career on the research of Southeast
    Asian history, especially that of the Philippines, as well as the study of US Foreign
    Policy. One of his dissertations tackled the factional conflict in the colonial
    economy of Iloilo, Philippines from 1937 to 1955. His interest in Filipino history
    allowed him to master the Hiligaynon dialect and understand the political
    situation, not just of the region of Iloilo, but of the entire country.

    Philippine Cartoons is a compilation of 377 editorial cartoons and


    caricatures made by various Filipino artists that tackle the situation during the
    American occupation in the Philippines. Dated from 1900 to 1941, each individual
    caricature recorded national attitudes toward the coming of the Americans as
    well as the changing mores and times.

    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.

    Some of the cartoons presented the condition of Filipino farmers on the


    hands of American tenants who self-owned the lands of the laborers and
    imposed unbearable and unjust taxes on them. The cartoons also compared the
    job situation of a Filipino and an American by portraying unequal salaries despite
    having the same nature of work, which highlighted racial discrimination in terms
    of work condition, wages, job opportunities, and career positions.

    Aside from that, the caricatures also depicted Americans as controlling and
    enslaving people by taking over the insular civil service and making Filipinos do
    most of the work for their own benefit, paying off authorities for their personal
    security, and demanding highest respects from the Filipinos. From here, growing
    corruption was shown to be taking over the political processes in the Philippines.
    Moreover, they exemplified American imperialism as the primary reason for the
    war between Muslim and Christian Filipinos in Mindanao and for other feuds
    among Filipino people who should have been supporting one another in fighting
    Americans to regain their independence.

    McCoy was able to provide a comprehensive background for each


    caricature to give readers details of the turbulent period the Filipinos have
    experienced under the hands of the Americans. With the help Alfredo Roces, who
    designed the book and contributed an essay on Philippine graphic satire during
    the American era, Alfred McCoy was able to publish Philippine Cartoons as a
    secondary source of different political caricatures drawn during the said period.
    These caricatures clarify historical information and serve as eye-openers to the
    realities experienced by the people under the American occupation.

    The book reflected anti-American sentiments in addition to the


    condemnation of the ruling class which give us a glimpse of the Philippine society
    of the past, visualize its historical politics, and appreciate the representations of
    perceptions of the Filipinos of that era. Later, political cartoons like these would
    become relevant in presenting the current situation of the country, just like how
    they served as primers for engaging the people in the prevailing opinions at that
    time.

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