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

Title: Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress Author: David Levering Lewis ISBN: 9780060523428 Publisher: Amistad Published: 2003 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: 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