The Caribbean. Headline Focus Wall Map 11.
- Title:
- The Caribbean. Headline Focus Wall Map 11.
- Alternate Title:
- The Caribbean.
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Aber, Hal
- Date:
- 1971
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2379.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2379_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Communism & Cold War
Disaster/Health/Environment
Ethnocentrism
Other Moral & Social
Politics & Government
Slavery/Race
Unusual Graphics/Text
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 48 x 70 on sheet 64 x 97 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This wall map, published for use in teaching high school students, sends a sharply negative message about the Caribbean. The map shows the area from Florida to Venezuela, and from Latin America to British Guiana, overlaid with an image of a 16th century vessel that appears to be sinking. There are eight features shown prominently on the map, in black. All but one of these (an unlabeled oil well off-shore Venezuela) convey “bad news.” The most visible features are three large, clenched fists of “BLACK POWER,” in Jamaica, The Netherlands Antilles and Tobago. There are three smaller images of warships, one for Soviet ships in the Caribbean, one marking the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the third reflecting “PROTEST OVER U.S. NAVY TARGET PRACTICE” at Culebra, Puerto Rico. The final feature highlighted in black is labeled “HURRICANE BREEDING GROUND.”
To the right of the map are four photos with captions sounding the same somber note. “Paradise” remarks on the decline of tourism in the Caribbean Islands. “Politics” decries Haiti’s notorious dictator Papa Doc, who “has ruled with an iron hand, mostly by use of terrorism.” “Production Problems” reports the decline in Cuban sugar cane harvest despite the help of Soviet sailors in cutting cane. And just to be sure the message of the map is not lost, “Protest” discusses the rise of the Black Power movement and the “fear that racial unrest will scare away tourists."
For other maps reflecting the rise of the Black Power movement in the early 1970s, see ID ##2135, 2362 and 2372.
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- Scholastic Magazine, March 22, 1971.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.