Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness takes us systematically through the years since Du Bois’s “data portraits” first appeared at the Paris Exposition in the early twentieth century. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century reveals Du Bois’s repudiation, through sociological analysis, of white supremacist academics’s criminalization of all of Black America. Both titles under discussion expose how the criminalization of the Black race has been a fundamental component of the nation’s ever-evolving racial capitalism.
The depravity of this conceit is perhaps most visible in America’s prison-industrial complex, with over 2.3 million Black people incarcerated or within the post-incarceration criminal justice system. Whenever one looks to the justification for such racist exploitation, a supposedly color-blind dataset is not far away. Red-lining, predatory municipal debt financing, and unequal distributions of education and health care have all enforced a supremely racist social order. JBlack America has been ravaged by racial capitalism. Du Bois’s Data Portraits and Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness By s.e. Racial Capitalism, Du Bois, and the Present-Day Condemnation of Blackness A Review of W.
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