ABSTRACT
Anglo-American interpretations of Spaniards as Moors, Gypsies, and Jews and comparison of them to Turks and to Native Americans in the nineteenth century, and especially in the second half, were neither random nor mere statements of fact. Although a pattern between Anglo-American privilege, power, and imperialism may be discerned, people from all classes were generating prowar and anti-Spanish representations. During the Spanish-American War, the Syracuse Herald published a satiric cartoon about Spain captioned "Entertaining a Delusion" and showing two figures sitting across from one another at a small tavern table. Among cartoons of the Spanish-American War, "Bart's" were some of the most popular. "Bart's" cartoons form the bulk of those selected for the 1898 collection Cartoons of the War of 1898. Bart's cartoons, however, were especially popular. They effectively pack together the many motifs from the orientalist version of Spain to create a composite racialized physical type as emblem of Spain.
