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Political Immigration Cartoons. Directions.
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Directions Editorial cartoons are much more than mere cartoons or comics. They are drawn specifically to offer a point of view about a current issue. Their message may contain propaganda, bias, and emotional factors veiled as symbolism, exaggeration, stereotypes, and humor and irony. America is a country of immigrants. The following PowerPoint chronicles some of the early cartoons about immigration and more recent cartoons. Choose 1 cartoon before 1900 and 1 after 1900. Complete a cartoon analysis for each cartoon you have selected. Answer the questions in your learner’s notebook. Cartoon Analysis 1. Title and date of the source: ___________________________________________________ 2. List the key objects in the cartoon and describe what each represents: Object Symbolizes _________________________ __________________________________ _________________________ __________________________________ _________________________ __________________________________ 3. What is the cartoonist’s message? 4. In this cartoon, who is the insider? Who is the outsider? What does it mean to be the outsider in this cartoon? 5. What is the cartoonist’s point of view? 6. How does the cartoonist exhibit his/her bias? (stereotypes, exaggeration, humor, irony) 7. Do you agree or disagree with the cartoon’s message? Why or why not?
Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinnerby Thomas NastHarper’s Weekly, November 20, 1869
J. Kepler cartoon, Puck, April 28, 1880. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC. Sign reads: “No oppressive taxes, No expensive kings, No Compulsory Military Service, No Knouts (whips) or DungeonsTitle of Cartoon: WELCOME TO ALL!
The one unmixable element in the national pot was the Irish. A female U.S. figure, ("Uncle Samantha"?) stirs various stereotypes of different nationalities into the American melting pot, in "The Mortar of Assimilation," 1889. Cartoon. Duplicate of IM-F-42. Title reads “The Mortar of Assimilation and the One Element that Won’t Mix”
J. Keppler cartoon, Puck Magazine, January 11, 1893, Title: “Looking Backward”Bernard A. Weisberger, The American Heritage History of the American People, 1971, p. 248, 8.12.5
Great American Melting Potby Richard Crowson,The Wichita Eagle, March 28, 2006
“America’s Mixed Message. . .”by Walt HandelsmanNewsday, 2007