W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits : Visualizing Black America
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits : Visualizing Black America
<p>/ by The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ; ed. by Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Britt Rusert. - New York : Princeton Architectural , 2018. - 144 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Includes notes</p>
ISBN: 978-1616897062
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.
