I have purchased this item and it will be delivered at some point. Notice how the illustration looks like Fair Park.
Art Deco exists in the time of European Imperialism and white supremacy in the United States. It would be naive to assume that though it bills itself as progressive that it somehow exists isolated from the social context in which it exists.
The Fair Park 1936 Centennial materials repeatedly use the word "empire." It wants to locate itself with the other empires of the time.
The Empire Exhibition is nearly the same time as the 1936 Texas Centennial. Both events promoted a white supremacist understanding of history and the world. Not surprisingly the architecture is similar.

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