W. E. B. Du Bois’s Color Line - by Mabel O. Wilson - Visionscarto
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“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.” The sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois meant that both literally, with the collection of infographics about the lives of black Americans he designed for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and figuratively by drawing them as radical and colorful works of art. The complete set of graphics has been collected in full color for the first time in the forthcoming book W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits, from which the following text is excerpted.
