Poster for SouthWestern Association American Geographers (SWAAG) session on Fair Park

The Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers is having their convention in Fort Worth, Texas.  I am going to have a poster session there.

So I finished making up my poster. The convention is in Oct. 2019.
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Singed up for a poster session at the 2109 Meeting of the Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers

I have registered to go to the 2019 Southwesten Division of the American Association of Geographers meeting, Oct. 10-12, 2019 in Fort Worth and signed up to do a poster session.

http://www.sw-aag.org/2019-swaag-meeting.html

I have submitted my abstract.

I have to design the posters which are 3 feet by 4 feet to have there. I am allowed up to 20 posters, but I think 3 or 4 is all I need.

What you do is stand around your poster and talk to passers by at the convention who are interested. You can have links, and other information about further online resources. I am going to learn QR code so people can just use their smartphones to pull in a link and look stuff up online.

I plan to invite media to drop by and send out a press release.

I am learning that these poster dimensions are way too large for word, so you create a large template as a PowerPoint and then put  your presentation in that. You can also generate things in WORD and do a screen capture and just put your text in as an image.

For the national convention you get one 4 feet by 8 feet template. You can't do that in PowerPoint, but have to do it in Publisher instead, but you can just generate your stuff in WORD and screen capture and drop it in as an image.

I have some time to learn this before they are due and so I can have a gradual learning curve on this, but I don't think it is that difficult.

UPDATE: Version of paper with over 100 images available. Go to this link and follow the link to the page with the paper.

http://templeofdemocracy.com/fair-park.html

AntiNeoConfederate Channel on YouTube.

This is a link to a video on the channel. You can go there and subscribe to the channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wll-kvEcOAY

This is the link to the channel itself.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_TBuNDUeTcx0e2SlYfCYqw

Next show will be on the neo-Confederates pro-slavery ideology and the Kennedy Twins belief that the slave holders should have gotten slavery reparations.

This is the video embedded. The paper that goes with the video has been released. http://templeofdemocracy.com/history-paper-the-triumphalist-white-supremacy-of-fair-park.html

UPDATED Full video on the Triumphalist White Supremacy of Fair Park now online. UPDATE

This is the updated video.

I did the voice narrration without a script. I thought it would save time. In the future if I am doing video, I am going to have a script.  Update. I have moved this video to AntiNeoConfederate. (One word).  The old link will work, but use this link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wll-kvEcOAY

The link to the channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_TBuNDUeTcx0e2SlYfCYqw

UPDATE Paper that goes with the video is at http://templeofdemocracy.com/history-paper-the-triumphalist-white-supremacy-of-fair-park.html  UPDATE 2: Paper with pictures is now available.

Open Letter asking that the City of Dallas confront the triumphalist white supremacy of Fair Park UPDATE

We have 39 signatures so far and we will be working at getting more signatures.

A PowerPoint presentation has been completed and presentations will be scheduled to different groups.

The letter is online with the list of people who have signed it so far at:

http://templeofdemocracy.com/fair-park-letter.html

UPDATE: We now have a paper on Fair Park and a video.

This is the link to the paper. http://templeofdemocracy.com/history-paper-the-triumphalist-white-supremacy-of-fair-park.html

This is the video.

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.

Fair Park, Art Deco and White Supremacy and Empire Exhibitions

We read about there being a Fascist architecture and a Soviet Archtecture, but we tend to think of Art Deco as just Deco, decorative and not having a politics.  Yet it appears that Art Deco served a purpose in supporting white supremacy during the 1930s.

Look at these pictures.

And this picture.

These are pictures for the Empire Exhibition of 1938.  If you read the literature of Texas Centennial guides and other items, you find the word "empire" over and over again. Not surprisingly the formula of Fair Park is in a larger context of other empire exhibitions using Art Deco to make white supremacy seem modern.

I have purchased several books on this, a couple have shown up in the mail. One is "Modern Architecture and the End of Empire," by Mark Crinson and the other is "Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris," by Partricia A. Morton.

I have on order yet one final book, "A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190274727

I think these new materials will give some new insights into Fair Park, but also give more credibility into the observations I have made about Fair Park. They aren't some local eccentric perception made by myself, but something that has been generally observed by the larger academic community.