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 Americans in front of their new businesses, universities, and homes -- sometimes modest, sometimes elegant. Here, too, are beautiful Victorian-era portraits of blacks whose varied hues show how diverse black Americans truly were. Viewed together, the collection reveals in glorious detail what Du Bois saw -- a small nation of people prepared to make their mark on America.

A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress

Arts & Photography

Deborah Willis

David Levering Lewis

History & Criticism

Amistad

"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."—The New York Times Book Review.

When Harlem Was in Vogue

Penguin Publishing Group

WHEN HARLEM WAS IN VOGUE

History

Americas

KNOPF

Based on previously unpublished documents, this book tells of the scramble for Africa in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the resistance from the African people.

The Race to Fashoda: A European Colonialism And African Resistance In The Scramble For Africa

Africa

Bloomsbury Publishing

A definitive biography of the African-American author and scholar describes Du Bois's formative years, the evolution of his philosophy, and his roles as a founder of the NAACP and architect of the American civil rights movement. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Henry Holt Co.

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