CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/1/2022

Celebrate Black History with W.E.B. Du Bois' Remarkable Turn-of-the-Century Infographics

Featured spreads are from Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition, essential reading for Black History Month 2022. Featuring mostly anonymous turn-of-the-century photography and Du Bois' groundbreaking infographics, this book is an historic must. "Du Bois is known as one of America's greatest intellectuals—a wordsmith, a scholar, a poet, a polemicist—but this stunning book reminds us that he also had a powerful visual imagination," Kwame Anthony Appiah writes. "His work at the 1900 Paris Exposition, intently taking on stereotypes of Negro backwardness, shows a profound engagement with the image. Nobody knew better than he how images could bamboozle; nobody knew better how images could enlighten…"