American cartoonists

also illustrating how the great American hypocrisy affects this transition. A great example of this comes from two paragraphs discussing her father’s first job at a blood bank. The job is temporary, as he’s trying to get official certification to be a doctor in the United States, but he encounters difficulties. One woman is xenophobic to him, “[requesting] to see an “American” doctor” (Balcita 2006, 1) when he comes to her aid. While this is a prime example of American hypocrisy as I explained…

cartoon’s setting is Georgetown and people are in line to vote for Andrew Jackson as a president. And it features an African-American man standing in line to vote and two white men glaring at them. The African-American man is dressed up in low class clothes. He took off his hat when he puts his vote in the glass ballot box. A white man lined up behind the African-American man is dressed up in nice hat, coat, and shoes. He looked seemed to belong in a high class. Among those two men, man on the…

after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the African Americans lost many rights since Jackson had no sympathy for the recently freed slaves, even after the Fifteenth Amendment, stating that African Americans could not be denied rights. The last big cultural movement was the introduction of the birth control pill. By 1965, no woman could be turned down for the new oral contraceptives. These events not only changed history but they changed American…

betrayed the revolution he was also probably being faithful to it at the same time due to how much the Revolutionaries went back and forth on ideals. However, British cartoonists loved to portray Napoleon as a betrayer of the Revolution, painting him as a small and angry man who was greedily trying to control the world. Other cartoonists who held a more favorable view of Napoleon would depict him in quasi messiah ways, painting him as a savior of France and the…

Racism has been an ongoing issue for centuries. In 1890 Jim Crow laws were created to keep African Americans and Whites separate, but “equal”. This stripped them from any and every public classroom, bathroom, theater and even water fountain. In the tempestuous decade and a half that followed, civil rights activists spoke up in hope of bringing about change; Martin Luther King was the leading voice for these activists. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation…

In America some things left unsaid are usually less important to the public. Poor Discrimination was created by Joel Pett, an American Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist who is the leading illustrator for the Lexington- Herald. This picture informs people that the poor are in fact discriminated against, not because of their race, but because of their social class. Using a reinvented 12-step program, which is people normally attend to solve detrimental problems. This cartoon was created…

challenge the American system, they leaped at the opportunity to secure for themselves a place of choice within it. I relatively disagree with this claim because they initially did not choose to integrate themselves into the American institutions, but instead they were constrained to do so due to the prevailing political system. In fact, as aforementioned, “no immigrants ever came to the United States better prepared by tradition and experience to empathize with the African-Americans than were…

titled “Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free Soiler” surfaces during the tumultuous build-up to the American Civil War. In the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which ultimately granted popular sovereignty – the ability of the people to consent to its authoritative bodies – over the issue of slavery, slavery sympathizers and abolitionists combatted each other to gain advantages. The cartoonist makes effective use of graphic imagery, labels, and language to demonstrate the true purpose of…

to the first civilizations, yet its byproduct—political cartoons—originate in a much more modern era. In 1898, the Spanish-American War ended with the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, and the U.S. acquired nearly all territory of the Spanish Empire. Nearly two decades later, Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa raided Columbus, New Mexico, killing sixteen Americans, forcing the U.S. government to take military action within the bordering country. Despite their amusing depiction, Louis…

Thomas Nast was a cartoonist in the 19th century, who primarily focused on issues with race and equality through the Civil War and Reconstruction era. He was given the name “Father of the American Cartoon.” During this period, the North and South were going fighting with one another due to opinions that both sides wanted the other to follow. Nast used his cartoons to influence the public opinions in the North which influenced public policy and showed his change of views of Reconstruction.…