{"title":"Collection | Black History Month Reading","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"w-e-b-du-boiss-data-portraits-visualizing-black-america","title":"W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"Contact us\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.cooperhewitt.org\/pages\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/shop.cooperhewitt.org\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSelected to accompany the exhibition \u003ca title=\"Cooper Hewitt Exhibition - Deconstructing Power\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/channel\/deconstructing-power\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/channel\/deconstructing-power\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca title=\"Cooper Hewitt Upcoming Exhibitions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/events\/current-exhibitions\/upcoming-exhibitions\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/events\/current-exhibitions\/upcoming-exhibitions\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e,\u003c\/a\u003e on view at Cooper Hewitt from December 9, 2022 through May 29, 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e —\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. 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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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chronicle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30909289332772,"sku":"9781616897062","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/2814\/5188\/products\/9131_WEBDuBoissDataPortraits-VisualizingBlackAmerica_l.jpg?v=1614282919"},{"product_id":"shantell-martin-lines","title":"Shantell Martin: Lines","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe graffiti-like art of Shantell Martin has, for more than a decade, captivated audiences around the world with its intuitive energy, skill and bravura. 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Using drawing as a physical stream-of-consciousness, her work is characterized by a unique freedom, expressed through the possibilities of her chosen canvas—whether that be a piece of paper or a textile, a sculptural surface, a wall or a screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBridging the fine art and commercial worlds since her beginnings making live performance drawings in the mega clubs of Tokyo, Martin navigates different creative worlds to interrogate and play with the roles of artist and viewer in a uniquely charming, accessible style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis monograph charts, for the first time, the career of this prolific and popular artist, including early pieces such as \u003cem\u003eDear Grandmother\u003c\/em\u003e (a 2003 collaboration between the artist and her grandmother on over 70 pieces of embroidery), large-scale murals and commissions and collaborations with museums, technical institutes, musicians and fashion brands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30909398188068,"sku":"9781912122271","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/2814\/5188\/products\/10286_ShantellMartin-Lines_Cover_l.jpg?v=1588882034"},{"product_id":"a-fools-errand","title":"A Fool's Errand","description":"Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's deeply personal tale of the triumphs and challenges of bringing the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to life. 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