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Historical Humanities Extension: Independent Reading (2026-D038)
历史人文延展阅读·独立成篇（2026-D038）
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This reading analyzes the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago as a site of contested cultural representation.
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Indigenous delegates from thirty-two nations were confined to ethnological villages while Euro-American progress narratives dominated main pavilions.
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The 'White City' employed neoclassical architecture to visually assert civilizational hierarchy, contrasting sharply with adjacent Midway Plaisance exhibits.
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Native American educators like Susan La Flesche Picotte critiqued exposition anthropology as extractive spectacle rather than collaborative knowledge exchange.
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Japanese commissioners negotiated unprecedented autonomy—curating their own pavilion with traditional aesthetics and contemporary industrial displays.
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Photographic archives show Black intellectuals organizing parallel congresses on racial uplift, deliberately excluded from official programming.
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Exposition maps omitted Indigenous land cessions finalized just months before opening, erasing ongoing dispossession from spatial narrative.
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French sociologist Émile Durkheim cited exposition data in formulating theories of collective effervescence and secular ritual.
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Souvenir programs translated 'progress' into measurable metrics—railway mileage, patent filings, literacy rates—excluding non-Western epistemologies.
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Architect Daniel Burnham’s correspondence reveals explicit intent to use exposition design to stabilize Gilded Age social anxieties.
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Contemporary Indigenous artists now reinterpret exposition imagery in multimedia installations reclaiming narrative agency.
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The exposition’s legacy lies less in technological display than in exposing how world fairs codify cultural hierarchies through spatial logic.