Iconography of the new empire : race and gender images and the American colonization of the Philippines /

Halili, Servando D. Jr.

Iconography of the new empire : race and gender images and the American colonization of the Philippines / Servando D. Halili Jr. - Diliman, Quezon City : The University of the Philippines Press, c2006. - xii, 219 pages : illustrations 23 cm.

This book makes a postcolonial reading of the American invasion and colonization of the Philippines in 1908. It considers how nineteenth century American political cartoons and caricatures influenced American foreign policy. The book includes a significant collection of political cartoons and caricatures about Filipinos by American cartoonists, and offers an alternative interpretation of reasons for the US colonial expansion in Asia (U.P. Press).

971-542505-4


Minorities--Philippines.
Philippines--Philippine American war,

DS 685 / .H139 2006