Fair Park paper with about 100 pictures released.

PAPER ON FAIR PARK WITH ABOUT 100 PICTURES

There are formally listed 84 Figures, but some of those figures are sets of pictures. There is a total 102 pages.

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

It is a big pdf so it might take some time. It is over 50 megabytes.

I am now going to ask scholars and cultural leaders to co-sign our letter. We have a total of 40 signatures so far.

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

Next step will be to ask corporations to not participate in the State Fair and entertainment groups to avoid the location.

Paper on the Triumphalist White Supremacy of Fair Park has been released. Campaign for co-signers started. UPDATE

This is the link to the paper.  UPDATE: The version with 100 pictures added has been uploaded.

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

This is the letter for which we are soliciting co-signers.
http://templeofdemocracy.com/fair-park-letter.html

Now that the video and position paper is done we are going to restart getting signatures for our letter campaign. We are also going to write corporations asking them not to participate in the Texas State Fair.

This is the video that goes with the paper.

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.