#W.E.B._Du_Bois Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900 – Brain Pickings
▻https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/09/w-e-b-du-bois-diagrams
On a recent research visit to the Emily Dickinson museum and archives in Amherst, I chanced upon a most improbable discovery of forgotten, pioneering work by another titan of culture.
When thirty-one-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois (February 23, 1868–August 27, 1963) heard that the World’s Fair to be held in Paris in 1900 would include a special exhibition on the subject of sociology, he saw in it an opportunity to open the world’s eyes to what had been occupying him for nearly a decade — “the American Negro problem.”
#WEB_Du_Bois(un article en plus à mettre dans la collection)
