The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts

Spring 2021 (March);

A random kindle sale, but picked up because the bingo board challenges keep me looking for a broad expanse of types of books, and it looked truly interesting on every level. I was really interested (and often horrified, with little spots of burgeoning hope) getting to see how these charts expanding things across different decades and in different places over time.

Fascinating stuff. I didn't know much about W.E.B. Du Bois beyond a vague idea of his work as a civil rights activist, so reading this and learning about his sociological work was fascinating. His data visualizations were surprisingly modern! I would love to read more about his work.

Plate 31 is better done than many charts I see today. Plates 34-36 precede the Racial Dot Map by 115 years. And they were all made by hand with no budget, under a tight deadline. The three introductory essays give needed contextualization.