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figure 6.5.UnitedFruit's''MissChiquita''(1956).NewYork:UnitedFruit
Company,1956.
students,andliberalpoliticiansintheUnitedStatesincreasinglycriticized
their government's foreign policies in Latin America and elsewhere, the
banana continued to be appropriated to tease, mock, and arouse in con-
texts far removed from the places where bananas grew.
United Fruit's advertising campaigns during the 1960s appropriated
both turn-of-the-century images of the tropics and elements of contem-