W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America

Synopsis

The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of "the color line." From advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery, these prophetic infographics —beautiful in design and powerful in content—make visible a wide spectrum of black experience.W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits collects the complete set of graphics in full color for the first time, making their insights and innovations available to a contemporary imagination. As Maria Popova wrote, these data portraits shaped how "Du Bois himself thought about sociology, informing the ideas with which he set the world ablaze three years later in The Souls of Black Folk."

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781616897772

Related ISBNs:

9781616897062

Publisher:

Princeton Architectural Press

Date of Addition:

11/19/24

Copyrighted By:

The W. E. B. Du Bois Center At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Britt Rusert

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Edited by:

Britt Rusert