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Annette Gordon-Reed, The Color Line, N.Y. Rev. Books, Aug. 19, 2021, at 26 (reviewing W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Whitney Battle-Baptiste & Britt Rusert eds., 2018), Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition (Julian Rothenstein ed., 2019), Michael Friendly & Howard Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication (2021))


Abstract: Gordon-Reed reviews several books on Blacks history, including, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century edited by Whitney Baule-Baptiste and Brilt Rusert, Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Boisat the Paris reposition edited by Julian Rothenstein, with an introduction by Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall, and A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication by Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer.