1936 Johannesburg Empire Guide Arrives from Australia/ Like Fair Park and looks like Fair Park

This is the cover of the booklet. If you were doing a quick glance you might mistake it for Fair Park. Art Deco was used at expositions in the 1930s to make white racist regimes seem modern and of the future.

 There is a tower to send out beams of light like the 1936 Texas Centennial

 Art Deco buildings at the exhibit. The lower one is very similar in style to buildings at Fair Park.

British Imperialism is so superior with their Art Deco building.

They find the famous ruins in Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia after a British imperialist, very mysterious. Though it is obvious that the people of Zimbabwe in the past build these buildings, they speculate that maybe it is the Queen of Sheba. They find it mysterious because they can't imagine anyone besides white people building these buildings.

No this isn't Fair Park. Art Deco in the service of white supremacy.

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.