Justice

Abortion in the U.S. has a significant spatial component. Let’s start with the obvious: Abortions, both surgical and medical, have historically happened primarily at dedicated clinics, separately from other procedures. Clinics became the primary place for abortions after Roe v. Wade because they didn’t pose the same challenges as hospitals, which, in addition to burdensome maintenance costs and code requirements, are often religiously affiliated and can refuse to provide abortions. Additionally, and crucially, clinics can hire exclusively pro-abortion staff, making the experience more comfortable for patients and the internal working dynamics more manageable.

Despite these advantages, separating clinics from other healthcare spaces has had the long-term effect of making them targets of antiabortion continued on page 15

It has been almost five years already since Princeton Architectural Press published W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1900 Paris Exposition data portraits as a visually riveting paperback. After public release in digitized form by the Library of Congress and in various printed color formats in a number of magazines, it would seem that the data portraits had been given their due. Graphic designers oohed and aahed over the cutting-edge modernity of the data portraits and their prescience in terms of data visualization. Important social science labs even commissioned Du Bois–styled presentations of 21st-century data. Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair, currently on view at Cooper Hewitt, invites us to consider the data portraits in the material context of the 1900 world’s fair in Paris. This exhibit highlights the role of the data portraits, even though they formed only a part of The Exhibit of American Negroes in Paris. The full American Negroes exhibit was a collaboration of continued on page 65