The new world order /
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| Format: | Map |
| Language: | English |
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Mukilteo, WA :
American Arts & Graphics, Inc.,
[1991]
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| Item Description: | "PC0339". Caricature map showing President George H.W. Bush dressed as an old-fashioned policeman, his helmet bearing a badge "World Cop", while hiding behind him is a tiny Vice President Dan Quayle wielding a golf club. There's militarism, with Iraq shown as a smoking crater labeled "Scud [i.e., Scud Missile] Land" and a vignette of a mopey, bandaged Saddam Hussein. There's black-and-white thinking, with for example North Africa divided between "Sane Arabs" and "Crazy Arabs". There's plenty of cynicism, including "Syria (Useful Terrorists)", "Willie Horton's House" in place of Boston, Massachusetts, and "Rain Forest (To Be Paved)" covering much of South America. There are many stereotypes, for example Australia is labeled "Crocodile Dundee", China as "Moldering Marxist Mandarins", Ireland as "IRA", and California rebranded as "AIDS", "S&L" (as in Savings and Loan Crisis), and "Crips and Bloods". "New world order" was a phrase used frequently by President Bush, referring to the collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, the end of the Cold War, and the supposed opportunity to form new alliances to maintain peace and prosperity in the face of "rogue states" such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq or Manuel Noriega’s Panama. The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy is part of the Maps of Imaginary Places Collection. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 map : one color ; 59 x 89 cm |