Cultural Appropriation Menus
"Hawaiian and South Pacific foods received attention during the Polynesian craze of the late fifties, inspiring … hundreds of tiki-themed restaurants."
Heimann, Jim, Steven. i. May I take your order: American menu design 1920-1960. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.
See also:
Calafell, Bernadette Marie. 2006. “Mocking Mexicans for Profit.” Latino Studies 4 (1-2) (Spring): 162-165. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600149 .
Though all these menus incorporate indiginous imagery, only Cocina de Carlos of the restaurants shown here actually were purveyors of that culture's cuisine.