Recreations of W.E.B Dubois's Data Portraits

decksh recreations of visualizations in "W.E.B Dubois's Data Portraits, Visualizing Black America" by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert (ISBN 978-1-61689-706-2).

The original plates (also included in this repo), may be accessed at the [Library of Congress].(https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-photographs-1900-paris-exposition/?st=grid&sb=shelf-id_desc)

List of Plates

• Plate 1: The Georgia Negro
• Plate 2: Relative Negro Population of the States of the United States
• Plate 3: States of the United States According to Their Negro Population
• Plate 4: Negro Population of Georgia
• Plate 5: Negro Population of Georgia by Counties, 1890
• Plate 6: Negro Population of Georgia by Counties, 1870, 1880
• Plate 7: Comparative Increase of White and Colored Population of Georgia
• Plate 8: Migration of Negroes 1890
• Plate 9: Age Distribution of Georgia Negroes Compared with France
• Plate 10: Conjugal Condition
• Plate 11: City and Rural Population 1890
• Plate 12: Slave and Free Negroes
• Plate 13: Race Amalgamation in Georgia
• Plate 14: Illiteracy
• Plate 15: Children in the Public Schools
• Plate 16: Teachers in Georgia Public Schools
• Plate 17: Number Of Negro Students Taking The Various Courses Of Study Offered In Georgia Schools
• Plate 18: Value of Land Owned by Georgia Negroes
• Plate 19: Acres of Land Owned by Negroes in Georgia
• Plate 20: Land Owned by Negroes in Georgia, USA, 1870-1900
• Plate 21: Valuation of Town and City Property Owned by Georgia Negroes
• Plate 22: Assessed Valuation of all Taxable Property Owned by Georgia Negroes
• Plate 23: Negro population in two cities of Georgia
• Plate 24: Value of Farming Tools
• Plate 25: Assessed Value of Household and Kitchen Furniture Owned by Georgia Negroes
• Plate 26: Occupations Of Georgia Negroes
• Plate 27: Occupations Of Negroes And Whites In Georgia
• Plate 30: Condition of 300 Negro Farm Tenants After 1 Year's Toil, 1898
• Plate 31: Income and Expenditure
• Plate 37: A Series Of Statistical Charts Illustrating The Conditions Of Descendants Of Formal African Slaves Now Resident In The Unites States
• Plate 38: Distribution of Negroes in the United States
• Plate 39: Increase in the Negro Population in the United States
• Plate 40: Comparative rate of increase of the White and Negro elements population of the United States
• Plate 41: Population Comparison
• Plate 42: Population Proportions
• Plate 43: Occupations in which American Negroes are engaged
• Plate 44: Proportion of Whites and Negroes in the different classes
• Plate 45: Occupations in which 10,000 or more American Negroes are engaged
• Plate 46: Number of Negro teachers in the Public Schools of the United States
• Plate 47: Illiteracy of the American Negro compared with other nations
• Plate 48: Enrollment in the Negro common school of the former slave States
• Plate 49: Proportion Of Total Negro Children Of School Age Who Are Enrolled In The Public Schools
• Plate 50: The Rise of Negroes from Slavery to Freedom in One Generation
• Plate 51: Proportion of Freemen and Slaves
• Plate 52: City and Rural Population
• Plate 53: Conjugal condition of American Negroes according to age periods
• Plate 54: Amalgamation of the White and Black elements of the population in the United States
• Plate 55: Proprietes contribuables des Nègres dans trois Etats des Etats Unis
• Plate 56: Negro landowners
• Plate 57: Negro business men in the United States
• Plate 58: Pauperism among American Negroes
• Plate 59: Mortality of American Negroes
• Plate 60: Crime among American Negroes
• Plate 61: American Negro newspapers and periodicals
• Plate 62: Religion of American Negroes
• Plate 63: Statistics of Negro Church Organizations
• Plate XX: Decrease of Illiteracy Among Black Freedmen of the United States (not in the book, discovered by Jason Forrest)

Making the recreations

You can use git to download the repo to your computer.

git clone https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits

Each plate has its own directory, for example plate27, and in the the directory is the bash script mkdeck which will create both a PDF (f.pdf) and PNG (f1.png) version of the plate.

cd plate27
./mkdeck

The mkdeck script uses a shell script pdf which should be in your $PATH.

#!/bin/bash
pdfdeck -stdout "$@" - > f.pdf

Also, each directory contains the original image of the plate, for example original-plate-27.jpg

The scripts assume some envrionment variables to be set. For Mac (for example zsh) and Linux (bash), use these lines in your shell's startup file:

export duboisans=PublicSans-Regular
export duboiserif=PublicSans-Bold
export duboismono=Inconsolata-Medium
export portrait=1584,2016
export landscape=2016,1584