W.E.B Du Bois's data portraits : visualizing Black America / edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Britt Rusert
Publisher: New York : The W.E.B. Du Bois Center At the University of Massachusetts Amherst , 2018ISBN: 9781616897062.Subject(s): African Americans -- Social conditions -- Charts, diagrams, etc | Information visualization | Sociology -- United States -- History | African American sociologistsDDC classification: 323 BAT General note: W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is the first complete publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's groundbreaking charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition. 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. Beautiful in design and powerful 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, collected here in full color for the first time.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is the first complete publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's groundbreaking charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
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. Beautiful in design and powerful 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, collected here in full color for the first time.
Contents: American Negro at Paris, 1900 / by Aldon Morris -- The cartography of W.E.B. DuBois's color line / by Mabel O. Wilson -- Du Bois and data visualization / by Silas Munro.
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