Marina, William

This thesis was prepared as experimental curriculum
for social studies utilizing an art approach. It contains
specific concept based lesson plans in the areas of geography,
American history and government. All of the concepts
are achieved through the use of art skills rather than textbook
interpretations. They require the student to use higher
level taxonomic skills in the preparation of a final observable
product such as maps, posters, flags and models. The
concepts presented contain a teacher's rationale, student's
discovery question, list of necessary materials, suggested
textbook sources, method of presentation by the teacher to
the students and discussion questions to follow the presentation
by the students of their product.

This thesis explores the origin and the far reaching
influence of four hundred indentured Indian agricultural
laborers who were introduced into British Guiana in 1838.
John Gladstone, father of the "perennial" Prime Minister,
was the originator of the enterprise. He was one of the
few subjects of Her Royal Majesty with the influence, wealth,
and nerve to begin a new, and questionable, labor system so
soon after the emancipation of African slaves in the British
Empire. The ramifications of the Gladstone coolies were
historically important and world-wide in scope. Because of
them the Government of the British Empire entered the coolie
trade and made it one of its strong props.

Black Power is still a very undefined concept. What it
amounts to, after all the rhetoric is cut away, is a bourgeois,
nationalistic, capitalistic, amelioristic, and gradualist
reform program. It has all the options open to all
ethnic groups in America at any time. Due to present conditions, however, these options are uncertain and blocked by
greater obstructions. The options are capital accumulation,
a higher degree of integration into labor organizations, a
higher degree of participation in the political arena, including
coalition politics, various self-help schemes, advancement through higher education, and, most unlikely , some
kind of revolutionary activity.
Ethnicity is still a factor in the American social, political,
and economic panorama. It can be either a hindrance
or an advantage in the advancement of any minority group.

Television has become one of the most important influences in the nation's life, especially its political life. The ways in which television presented the news and in which political figures appeared, especially, the Presidents, became noticeably important in the 1960's. It was feared that domination of television by wealthy candidates would further weaken the democratic process. Although such wholesale capture of the electorate was not evident in the Sixties, it was regarded as a future danger. Television news was remarkable for its saturation in the public, its power to calm the people in time of crisis, its conciseness, and the ambivalence with which people reacted to it.

The thesis investigates the paradoxical similarity of the foreign
policy views of right-wing "isolationists" in the late 1940's and the
early 1950's and those of comtemporary left-wing critics. Senator
Robert Taft of Ohio, Representative Howard Buffet of Nebraska, and the
publicists Frank Chodorov, Garet Garrett, Louis Bromfield, and Felix
Morley believed that imperial American policy would continually risk
war, and that centralization, militarism, staggering taxation, inflation
and a garrison state would inevitably result from taking the path
of empire. As classical liberals, they saw the imperial impetus to stat
ism as the major threat to libertarian values and, hence, opposed vigorous
foreign policy.
The Korean War was a watershed: most Rightists, even Taft, became
Asian interventionists. The publicists, not needing to win voters committed
to Cold War, held the old views longer. The rise of National
Review contributed to the demise of right-wing anti-intervencionism.
Contemporary libertarianism revives the old viewpoint.

Fidel Castro's revolution had support from groups in the United States that saw the dictator in a different light than did the anti-communists who opposed him. The most prominent of these groups was the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which tried to mend the break in US-Cuban diplomatic relations. The very active Tampa chapter existed in a city with a large Cuban-American and emigre population. It also existed in a Cold War environment, and was viewed similarly to other chapters by government anti-subversives. This organization ceased operations after one of its members was accused of assassinating President Kennedy. The assassination determined its legacy for decades to come. When government records on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee were declassified, the group could again be put into the perspective of the Cold War and Cuba.