"As visually arresting as it is informative."— The Boston Globe "Du Bois's bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America."—Fast Company's Co.Design W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is the first complete publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's groundbreaking charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Famed sociologist, writer, and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois fundamentally changed the representation of Black Americans with his exhibition of data visualizations at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Beautiful in design and powerful in content, these data portraits make visible a wide spectrum of African American culture, from advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery. They convey a literal and figurative representation of what he famously referred to as "the color line," collected here in full color for the first time. A landmark collection for social history, graphic design, and data science , these visualizations and infographics were far ahead of their time. This comprehensive publication gives modern readers a chance to explore and enjoy: Colorful graphs and charts that are mesmerizing pieces of art in their own right - Content that makes a valuable companion to W.E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk - Contributions from renowned scholars and educators Aldon Morris, Silas Munro, and Mabel O. Wilson   W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is an informative and provocative history, data, and graphic design book that resonates with readers as a timeless and invaluable resource. Perfect for collectors of African American studies books, reference material for Black History Month and beyond, and gift-giving to designers, artists, and sociology enthusiasts. "For any young designer or graphic artist coming up, it’s an inspiring account of how a blend of science and art can call attention to 'invisible struggles.' There is brilliance in truth-telling and sharing stories of real people in design which help us create a deeper sense of empathy for the humanity of others." – Fast Company "The book serves as an immersion into this unique set of infographics, an analysis of their context, and a guide to the design choices that made these visualizations so effective and significant in their original context and today.... W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America is a necessary read for designers, researchers, and professors interested in data visualization, because it is time to recognize the historical significance of Du Bois’s work. At the same time, it enables modern designers in data visualization to apply the lessons learned from this historical moment to their own work." – Design and Culture “These rarely seen and beautifully rendered data visualizations show the promise and creative possibilities of black art and science, more than a century ago, to remak eAmerica in the true image of all her people. Drawn in brilliant and vivid colors in these portraits, Du Bois’s color line reminds us that the struggle for justice is also the struggle for truth, then as now.” - Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Harvard University, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America "Compiled in a new book from Princeton Architectural Press, the diagrams distill data on everything from land ownership to the value of furniture in black households, and display exquisite stylistic ingenuity; Du Bois's bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America." - Fast Company's Co.Design "Collected for the first time in book form on the occasion of Du Bois’s 150th birthday, and accompanied by academic essays, the infographics underscore the groundbreaking contributions of this eminent intellect and activist." - Metropolis "W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits was published on the sesquicentennial year of the Du Bois’ birth, and it further reaffirms the scholar’s place as a founding figure in American sociology. The recirculation of Du Bois’ data portraits offer a new opportunity to marvel at the forward-thinking work being done at Atlanta University." - Smithsonian Magazine "These images are as precise as they are dazzling; sobering and chromatic all at once. They also unleash modernist forms of abstraction and conceptual artistry decades ahead of their time. A graphic rendering of fire." - Nylon "At the Paris Exposition in 1900, W.E.B. Du Bois, activist, writer, sociologist, historian, exhibited a number of graphs, charts, and maps that illustrate “the color line” and shined a spotlight into how Black Americans were living. In “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’’ editors Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert collected these images together for the first time. The result is as visually arresting as it is informative." - The Boston Globe "Du Bois' data visualizations co