Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

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$35.00  $32.55
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Redstone Press
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144
Dimensions
10.0 X 12.7 X 0.5 inches | 1.8 pounds
Language
English
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Paperback
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9781942884538

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About the Author

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a black American author, sociologist, historian and civil rights activist. He was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and one of the founders of the NAACP. His writings include Black Reconstruction in America, commonly considered the original pioneering work of revisionist African American history, and The Souls of Black Folk, a powerful and enduringly influential examination of the African American condition. Dr. Du Bois devoted his life to working toward equal rights and opportunities for people of color in the USA and worldwide.

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Reviews

I find this lush and exquisitely produced book essential to my understanding of a historical event that did much to change my perception of DuBois, and his brilliant expansiveness. It's marvelous to have this lost material between covers now, and forever.--Hilton Als "Author of White Girls and staff writer at The New Yorker"
Shattered myths about Black America...--Jacqueline Francis "LitHub"
Thematic and poetic pairings... By recovering [W.E.B. Du Bois's] mode of presentation--illustrating impersonal forces besides portraits of individuals, their homes and their workplaces--this volume gives further evidence, if such is still needed, of Du Bois's rich dialectical method.--Ciaran Finlayson "Bookforum"
Rothenstein seeks to emphasize the relevance of Du Bois's work through juxtaposition: materials from the original exhibition are interspersed with excerpts from Du Bois's own writings and more... These interstitial selections seem intended to conjure a continuum of black voices, or perhaps to argue that the insurmountable prejudices of Du Bois's day linger in the present.--Hua Hsu "New Yorker"
This is an extraordinary book - an arrestingly beautiful combination of photographs and graphics.--Margaret Busby "New Yorker"
Focussing on the set of 63 infographics Du Bois presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition, [the book] shows the pioneering graphs, charts and maps Du Bois developed with a team of African American students from his sociology laboratory at Atlanta University to radically challenge racism and the arguments behind white supremacy.--Laura Snoad "It's Nice That"
contains reproduction of the images taken by mostly anonymous photographers showing the changing status of a newly emancipated people across America.--Charles Caesar "Galerie"
A handsome new book that tells a lesser-known but fascinating story about the 1900 fair: the staging of the American Negro Exhibit at the grand Palace of Social Economy.--Sukhdev Sandhu "Guardian"