La propaganda estadounidense y la ocupación de Filipinas, 1898-1902

Laura Díaz Esteve

doi:10.24310/tsn.17.2024.20056

Authors

Laura Díaz Esteve Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4503-1217

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/tsn.17.2024.20056

Keywords:

War of 1898, Philippine-American War, propaganda, US empire, First Philippine Republic, Malolos Republic

Abstract

This article analyzes the US propaganda that promoted the American colonization of the Philippine Islands after the War of 1898. Through a review of the extensive secondary literature on the subject, it explains how the US government justified the occupation of the islands after the conflict by arguing that the population of the archipelago had not yet reached the necessary political, cultural, and social evolutionary stage to govern an independent country and defend it against the expansionist ambitions of other empires. Consequently, they argued, the United States had a responsibility to tutor the Filipinos until they were ready for self-government, while protecting them from foreign interference. To this end, most US media obscured the earlier Filipino revolutionary struggle and mocked the autonomy aspirations of the First Filipino Republic, established during the 1898 war against Spain.

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Author Biography

Laura Díaz Esteve, Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Historiadora del sudeste asiático en los siglos XIX y XX, especializada en las Filipinas. Su investigación se centra en las conexiones políticas y culturales entre las islas, España y Estados Unidos, con especial interés en el antiimperialismo y los medios de comunicación coloniales. Explora estos temas con un contrato Margarita Salas, concedido por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra para realizar una estancia en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

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