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fromBrooklyn Paper
6 days ago

'Printing Black America' examines modern society through a historic lens at the Brooklyn Public Library * Brooklyn Paper

W.E.B. Du Bois's 1900 Data Portraits visualized Black American progress through infographics, now recontextualized in a 21st-century exhibition exploring ongoing racial inequities and sociological questions.
fromHyperallergic
3 months ago

The Timeliness of W.E.B. Du Bois's Philosophies

The sculpture, "Untitled" (2022), by the late artist Radcliffe Bailey, is a striking visual metaphor for W.E.B. Du Bois's doctrine of double consciousness, the social historian's conceptualization of African Americans' racial positioning post-emancipation. In their orientation, the twin busts suggest the crisis of identity experienced under the duress of racism; the subjects' autonomous self-fashioning is at odds with their marginalized civic position.
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Social justice
fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
5 months ago

Postcards from the Edge: Revolutionary Visions in Perilous Times - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Solidarity economy rooted in self-determination, community ownership, and democratized capital can regenerate economies and address racial, labor, and economic crises.
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