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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B DuBois at the Paris Exposition illustrates how W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of black lives and the inequities of race in America. At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since the abolition of slavery. In striking graphic visualisations and photographs (taken by mostly anonymous photographers) he showed the changing status of a newly emancipated people across America and specifically in Georgia, the state with the largest black population. Du Bois' hand-drawn charts, maps and graphs represented the achievements and economic conditions of African Americans in radically inventive forms, long before such data visualization was commonly used in social research.
Paperback; 144 pages
