The caricature of

alfred mccoy
 Alfred W. Mccoy
✣ born June 8, 1945
✣ 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.
✣ After earning a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at Yale, my writing on
this region has focused on two topics — Philippine political history and
global opium trafficking.
✣ The Philippines remains the major focus of his research.
✣ An investigation of President Marcos’s “fake medals,” published on
page one of the New York Times (January 23, 1986)
✣ Closer Than Brothers(New Haven, 1999) documents the corrosive
impact of torture upon the Philippine military.

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PHILIPPINE CARTOONS (1985)

Philippine Catholic Mass Media

Award, Best book of the year for
1985
Philippine National Book Award
for History 1986
Gintong Aklat Award (Manila),
Special Citation for History 1987

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 Philippine Cartoons: The
Caricature of the American Era
1900-1941
✣ Philippine Political cartoon gained full expressions during the American
era
✣ Filipino artists recorded national attitudes toward the coming of the
Americans as well as the changing mores and times
✣ 377 cartoon compiled in this book speak for themselves
✣ Alfred McCoy is the extensive research in Philippine and American
archives
✣ Philippine Cartoons: The Caricature of the American Era 1900-1941

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Urged the government to confiscate
the large priest’s residence attached
to Santa Cruz parish church

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MANILA : THE CORRUPTION
OF THE CITY

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 Depicts the first of manila’s
periodic police scandals

Fernando Amorsolo gives

the illustration a usual racist
edge

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 Built on a swamp amd ringed
with streams and ponds,
Manila is a natural breeding
ground for malarial
mosquitoes

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Uncle Sam and
Little Juan
The Parties Take Turns

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THE ALIENS IN OUR MIDST

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 THE POLITICAL PAGEANT

✣ Nacionalista Party under

President Manuel Quezon), 1944–1946
(under President Sergio Osmeña),
✣ Federalista or Progresista Party

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