I have been trying to wrap my brain around the final chapter and I am now convinced I got lost somewhere in the description of how the Fair was laid out. I do not understand the cultural meaning the Fair represented according to Trachtenberg. I did however catch that Black Americans were only allowed to participate in the production of the Fair through menial work. Native Indians were there to represent the living past and the spectacle of savagery. Women were by far more represented to include a woman architect but if I understood Trachtenberg, women were still represented through the guise of their domestic importance.
Does anyone have a different understanding of "White City"?
I took the White City to be a discussion of society as a spectacle, a show, a production. I think Trachtenberg was trying to show how manufactured and constructed the Ideal American society was to those in power.
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