For over 100 years, W. E. B. Du Bois’s “The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) has reverberated through academic and public discourse for its astute and abiding racial analysis. But prior to the publication of this landmark text, Du Bois visualized his notion of double consciousness in modernist data portraits at the 1900 Paris Exposition. With these infographics, Du Bois colorfully visualized Black America, which he called a “nation within a nation,” depicting the notable progress made by Black Americans in spite of centuries of global anti-Blackness, chattel slavery, and Jim Crow — oppressive, institutionalized structures strengthened by the social Darwinist paradigms that dominated mainstream science of the day and rippled throughout the Paris Exposition’s sociological showcases. Read more in the article by jasmineweber through our link in bio. . . . #WEBDuBois #BlackHistory #DataVisualization #ArtHistory