Small Nation of People W. E. B. du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress

Name: Small Nation of People W. E. B. du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
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ISBN: 9780060523428

ISBN-10: 0060523425

ISBN-13: 9780060523428

Edition: 2003

Authors: David Levering Lewis, Deborah Willis, Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) Staff

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As the world prepared for the Exposition Universalle de 1900 in Paris, W. E. B. Du Bois was approached to help represent African American life. He came with a cache of stunning photographs to illustrate the progress of Negroes in America -- thereby offering a photographic counterpoint to the prolific stereotyping of blacks that left viewers awestruck. With insights from Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis and Mac-Arthur Fellow photo historian Deborah Willis, A Small Nation of People presents more than one hundred and fifty of these important photographs together for the first time since their initial unveiling. Here is an incredible treasure trove of illustrations of African…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/23/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 8.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

She has taught photography & the history of photography at New York University, City University of New York & the Brooklyn Museum. She lives in Washington, D. C..



Preface


Introduction


A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and Black Americans at the Turn of the Twentieth Century


The Sociologist's Eye: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Paris Exposition


Selections from the Photographs at the Exposition des Negres d'Amerique, "Exhibit of American Negroes," Paris Exposition, 1900


Notes


About the Photographs


Acknowledgments