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W.E.B. Du Bois

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The Evolution of Instagram Activism

Avatar photo by Jonah Kay October 31, 2020September 30, 2022

Many activist graphics on Instagram are deeply indebted to the visual language developed by W.E.B. Du Bois in his data portraits and the long history of visual activism.

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How W.E.B. Du Bois Meticulously Visualized 20th-Century Black America

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber February 5, 2019May 20, 2022

The Pan-African scholar’s data visualizations about Black American progress after Emancipation have been compiled, for the first time, as a book.

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The Obama Portraits and the History of African American Portraiture

by Steven Nelson March 14, 2018August 25, 2021

Like many African American portraitists, Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley represent the Obamas as themselves, and as more than themselves.

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In Paintings and Ceramics, Theaster Gates Salvages Charged Materials

Avatar photo by Alex Jen February 6, 2017January 11, 2021

In his new show at Regen Projects, Gates showcases paintings based on data visualizations by W.E.B. Du Bois and ceramic sculptures that reinterpret iconic forms.

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Remixing the Resistant Voices of Black Musical Performance in the US

by Scott Borchert July 5, 2016July 5, 2016

It’s easy to forget what an oddly heterogeneous and restless book is W.E.B Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.

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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 4, 2016July 4, 2016

For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black life.

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