Four lessons that take students into W.E.B. Du Bois's hand-drawn data portraits from the 1900 Paris Exposition, then have them make their own.
- Become a Data Detective: read one of Du Bois's charts closely and work out what it argues.
- Seeing the Story of the Color Line: the data behind the portraits and what it shows.
- Ask the Archive: question Du Bois's writing through a living archive, and check the answers against the source.
- Draw the Data: make a chart in Du Bois's style from current numbers.
Open index.html for the lesson hub. Each lesson is a single web page that runs in a browser, and printable guides are included as PDFs.
- dubois-does-data-notebooks: Colab notebooks that rebuild the charts with current data.
- du-bois-paris-hall: walk through the 1900 hall.
Made by Radical Imagination, a cultural technology studio in Queens.