Cream colored book cover with black trim. Center of cover dominated by spiraling infographic with red, yellow, pink and purple lines. Above the spiral, three alternating lines of centered text in black, red, and black contain the title and subtitle ”the color line at the turn of the century,” which is in all caps. Editors names appear in black below the spiral.
Two pages on cream-colored paper with color infographics. The left page contains text around a small color-coded map of the United States and a pie chart in red, yellow, blue, pink, and gray. The right page contains a 3/4 page graphic chart with a stepped configuration in red, blue and green.
Two facing pages on cream-colored paper exhibiting wear and some torn edges, each with a descriptive title above a central, dominant color infographic. The left page has a circular chart with a red outline, black center and inner bands of yellow and blue. On the right page a spiraling infographic has red, yellow, pink and purple lines.
Two facing pages on cream-colored paper exhibiting worn edges, each with a descriptive title above a central, dominant color infographic. The left page shows lines connecting the western and eastern hemispheres in black, brown and yellow. The right page has a color-coded map of the United States and key in red, yellow black, brown, pink and gray.
Cream colored book cover with black trim. Center of cover dominated by spiraling infographic with red, yellow, pink and purple lines. Above the spiral, three alternating lines of centered text in black, red, and black contain the title and subtitle ”the color line at the turn of the century,” which is in all caps. Editors names appear in black below the spiral.
Two pages on cream-colored paper with color infographics. The left page contains text around a small color-coded map of the United States and a pie chart in red, yellow, blue, pink, and gray. The right page contains a 3/4 page graphic chart with a stepped configuration in red, blue and green.
Two facing pages on cream-colored paper exhibiting wear and some torn edges, each with a descriptive title above a central, dominant color infographic. The left page has a circular chart with a red outline, black center and inner bands of yellow and blue. On the right page a spiraling infographic has red, yellow, pink and purple lines.
Two facing pages on cream-colored paper exhibiting worn edges, each with a descriptive title above a central, dominant color infographic. The left page shows lines connecting the western and eastern hemispheres in black, brown and yellow. The right page has a color-coded map of the United States and key in red, yellow black, brown, pink and gray.

Date:October 2018
Editor:The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Britt Rusert, Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Publisher:Princeton Architectural Press
Dimensions:10.3 x 7.3 x 0.8 in.
Format:Hardcover
Pages:144
ISBN:9781616897062

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

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Selected to accompany the exhibition Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair, on view at Cooper Hewitt from December 9, 2022 through May 29, 2023.

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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."

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