W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits
Visualizing Black America
by The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ; ed. by Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Britt Rusert

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Author(s)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Editor(s)

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Britt Rusert

Publication

New York : Princeton Architectural , 2018

Scope

144 Pages, illustrated, diagrams, 26 cm.

ISBN

9781616897062

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Famed sociologist, writer, and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois fundamentally changed the representation of Black Americans with his exhibition of data visualizations at the 1900 Paris Exposition. In design and in content, these data portraits make visible a wide spectrum of African American culture, from advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery. They convey a literal and figurative representation of what he famously referred to as "the color line". W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is an informative and provocative book on history, data, and graphic design.

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Person as subject

W.E.B. Du Bois

Keywords

(in)equity , black movement , information design , racism

Location

Cabinet 11 - 2: Informatievormgeving

Remarks

Includes notes, index